In our globally competitive world, couples and families will succeed best if each strives to be all they can be and lends a helping hand to each other.
Roger Freberg
Bruins in Troy!
I’ve seen John Smith around… he’s everywhere track and field … and sports … happens to go. John is a former world record holder in the quarter mile. He’s successful and so is his family…. but he is… well… a “Bruin”. I ran into John at the annual Southern California Trojan Track Banquet where one of his relatives was accepting a prestigious award.
We both got a laugh at the fact that two former Bruin Track Captains were at a Trojan event.
Fight on!
Roger Freberg
…. don’t marry your brother!
We’ve known for a while now that folks that have similar immune systems tend to find each other… well unattractive. The reason is the couple is relatively similar… genetically.
On a site for making science ‘understandable’, an Evolutionary Neuroscientist explains the reasons behind fniding a partner with a different immune system. It’s a hybrid vigor type of thing… better for the offspring. There are a couple of videos on the site you might find interesting… besides, Neuroscientists are not hard on the eyes… they tend to be attractive people.
Roger Freberg
What is it about her ‘smell’ that draws me to her?
It is certainly true that one will notice an attractive and enticing smell long before we become aware of it’s origin?
As a young boy, I certainly was warned shortly before elderly female relatives grabbed my cheeks and planted an unwanted kiss apon me! Their ‘flowery’ essence spoke to me… run!… only my legs were a little bit too slow!
We know what we like … but how do folks find and put together those wonderful variations found in perfumes that tickle our memories so that we remember who we were with and where we were when we first enjoyed it?
A book came out last year and maybe you saw it… but I doubt it, unless you were combing the biology section of your local book store. It is the story of Perfume. It is entitled:
“the Secret of Scent” by Luca Turin
I won’t promise you that it will answer every question… but the author has a wonderful sense of humor that will make the technical and artistic aspects of perfume development understandable in an appreciably short time.
So, what do I like?
Michael Kors “Hawaii” — review
Caron’s Infini
Caron’s Bellodgia
Estee Lauder Intuition
Estee Lauder Pleasures
YSL Opium
I do recommend the book… it may not help you pick the ‘perfect’ gift… or maybe it will… but at least you will actually enjoy the process So instead of handing a bottle to your hun and saying…’ ah… it smells nice’… maybe you might say like the author:
“What ‘Nombre Noir’ said was ‘flower.’ But the way it said it was an epipthany. The flower at the core of the ‘Nombre Noir’ was halfway between a rose and a violet…(with) almost saintly background of cigar box cedar notes…”
Enjoy your discoveries.
Roger Freberg
FREE Campean & Ramos!
The word ‘scapegoats’ comes to mind when I think of our two Border Patrol agents rotting in prison for shooting ‘in the leg’ a fleeing Mexican drug dealer.
Frankly, I don’t see anything good happening.
What it does clarify even to the most deluded of us, is that ‘we’ — meaning our government — really don’t want our borders secure and that immigration policy is something we use to keep some folks out and let others sweep in.
I feel sorry for most sorry for the friends and families of former Border Patrol Agents Campean and Ramos. Free them now! Let them do their job.
Roger Freberg