April 18, 2009 Roll Out the Red Carpet written by Steven Barrymore I walked into the lobby of the Bankhead Theater in Livermore, California with Charlie Chaplin. Mr. Chaplin is alive and well, portrayed by Robert Martin. Robert has been performing the Chaplin character for over 10 15 years in San Francisco for visitors from [...]

April 09, 2008 Title TBD (To Be Determined) written by Steven Barrymore “It had very distinctive features . . . what came into view was truly amazing.“ While out on a 150-mile round trip journey to an area I frequent to photograph subjects for the http://www.imagesmagical.com/ Images Magical website. I stopped at a grouping of [...]

June 14, 2010 Typewriter With A Split Personality written by Steven Barrymore I am a sucker for technology, old school and new. I came across a combination of old and new tech in a YouTube video that really caught my attention. Developer Jack Zylkin, a is a reclusive genius with 57 cats, according to his [...]

March 19, 2008 Thank You For Being Here written by Steven Barrymore Thank you for having been here. Thank you for planning on being here. When was the last time you thanked someone for just being here? When not writing and working on Being of Life — the Blog, or out photographing images for http://www.ImagesMagical.com/, [...]

January 31, 2009 The Amicus Brief written by Steven Barrymore The words Amicus Brief, read like an action movie title. And there is plenty of action swirling around California’s Proposition 8 (same sex marriage). The opponents, 40 law firms and other interested parties, to California Proposition 8 have filed an Amicus Brief with the California [...]

June 23, 2008 Online Social Networking written by Steven Barrymore I have dabbled in online social networking. I have failed at online social networking. I do understand that each online social networking site is a ‘community’ of like-minded people. There is an etiquette to online social networking, of which I bungled on one popular site. [...]