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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

July 6, 2008 Mini-Blogs written by Steven Barrymore Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Workshop. So the saying goes, and what have I been building in my workshop lately? Designing and creating, the term that best comes to mind is, mini-blogs. An online service called Squidoo provides the place to build these mini-blogs. The word Lens [...]