Coming originally through a temp assignment -- tada! -- over nearly eight years I had an incredibly fulfilling job. I worked with a hands-off boss and collegial co-workers assisting on Encylopedias of Human Biology, Dinosaurs and Science and Technology. Then, as Senior Developmental Editor I interacted with the whole world of scientists/researchers/physicians and kept meticulous databases in the process of nurturing four major reference works from inception to publication: Encyclopedias of Stress, The Human Brain, Hormones and Endocrine Diseases.
The "endo" experience
was made especially precious by close
collaboration with Editor-in-Chief
Luciano Martini of Milan, as well as
poignant due to new AP owner
Elsevier dumping our small efficient
MRW department just two weeks
after the four impressive volumes
were published.
Sooo ... end of a fulfilling career, not a
happy time to be sure. But as I've
since discovered, no way the end of
the world!
I once knew someone who absolutely did
not know how to kiss. I cared about him so it was too difficult a subject to ever bring up. But now years later the two of us have been in touch. And I
decided to administer online from a distance a “Kiss Class.” Read on and feel
free to re-use …
Now, this isn't as diffricult (or as
easy) as a lecture or book study. It is more a hands-on (or should I say
lips-on?) approach. First of all, you DON'T pucker. As someone once said,
that's how you kiss your mother -- euw!
No, your mouth remains in its everyday easy, loose, soft talking/smiling mode as it gently touches the equally soft, loose lips of the intended. When the sets of lips meet it feels like heaven and the two begin to explore with little movements and then increasing pressure upon each other until they open a bit for tongues to touch. By this time, she is moaning as the oral sensations are felt up and down her body, if not all the way to her soul. And she is close to delirium when their lips finally untangle and mouths move to throats on their way to the wealth of other erotic areas. Such kissing can indeed go on for a lonnng time but even if only of a few minutes duration, I guarantee it will invariably lead in the desired direction.
The history of calendars is the very story of human-kind. For many thousands of years civilizations in every sphere of the globe grappled with sun, moon, heavens and tides to measure the two natural divi-sions of time — days and years -- in anticipation of achieving order in their lives.
Of course our earliest ancestors needed the concept of time only to pace their survival. And days were easily mark-ed by the alternating periods of light and dark. Daylight meant hunting food; darkness announced rest time. Some even kept the record by notching a stick or knotting a cord once each day.
Beyond that, early people saw the overall seasonal rhythms. The aging of their bodies, the growth of their children showed the passing of myriad night-and-day cycles and many seasonal changes. But determining the number of days in a year proved exceedingly difficult.
As eons accumulated many unique cultures evolved, councils were called, ceremonies observed. And long be-fore written records time-telling and day-tracking began to assume importance.
to be continued
