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 [...]

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/, [...]

May 16, 2009 Bart Simpson Live written by Steven Barrymore The Danville International Children’s Film Festival opened Friday May 15, 2009 with a VIP reception that included Nancy Cartwright, best known as the voice of Bart Simpson. Raini Rodriguez, co-star in the 2009 movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Charlie Chaplin (performer Robert Martin) and the [...]

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. [...]

Being of Life — the Blog and Images Magical web site have moved to a NEW hosting service. The web site is being updated and the Blog is being rebuilt. March 10, 2008 Update: The major portions of the update and rebuild are complete. The new hosting service provided great support in this transition process.

article originally published in The Daily Green Why California Recycled 80% of Glass and the Rest of the U.S. 30% Evidence that Nickle and Dime Deposits Work By Dan Shapley California is on pace to recycle nearly 80% of the glass introduced into commerce in 2008, according to the latest statistics — up from 71% [...]