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. [...]

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% [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]