September 27, 2008 Brother Can You Spare $700 Billion? written by Steven Barrymore My friend and I were discussing America’s economic issues while watching the first 2008 presidential debate between Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama, and he asked me if I thought that America is still a world power. I thought for a moment and [...]

December 23, 2007 Is It Safe To Feel Safe? written by Steven Barrymore poem by Tiffany Martin (in memoriam) AS I WALKED THE PATH The December 2007 article in Being of Life took a strange twist. It was planned to be a tribute to all those souls who have passed on and our celebration of [...]

January 13, 2008 written by Steven Barrymore photographs by Steven Barrymore FROM THE FILM COLLECTION Taking some time off. The Being of Life articles will return next month. Below are some favorite images from a collection of slides, photographed circa 1980′s in San Francisco. These scenes were photographed with Leica equipment (Reflex and rangefinder). Image [...]

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 [...]

September 06, 2009 Send in the Barking Clones written by Steven Barrymore Is it time to clone your dog? A couple in Florida did it. But it cost them $155K. When their Labrador retriever Lancelot died of cancer they had him, or a piece of him, cloned. Resulting in Lancelot Encore. Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk of [...]

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 [...]