August 02, 2009 6 Months To Live written by Steven Barrymore What would you do if you had 6 months to live? If you could be in good health for 179 days up to the last day, and died on the 180th day. Would you move to another country? Would you be more loving? Would [...]

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/, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

November 18, 2007 Are You Being Happy? written by Steven Barrymore THE BUZZ Motivational speakers are now talking of being happy. Being happy will solve your life issues and create a blissful state of mind. Remember when you were a baby how happy you were (you may have to look at your family baby pictures [...]

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 [...]