Planning our every action in advance, we manage to fit a hundred different things into a day. While, to an extent, this amount of planning may seem excessive, we can all agree that some things in life do need to…
Author Archive for Michael Priv
Michael Priv was born in the Soviet Ukraine; he escaped to the USA at the age of 19. A Civil Engineer by education and a Construction Business Consultant by trade, for many years he has been an avid student of Eastern philosophies, especially Tao and Buddhism—particularly as they apply to the resolution of everyday problems. Michael has recently published his first novel Friends of Fred. See Michael’s short stories and novels at http://www.ThetaWrite.com. E-mail Mr. Priv at michaelpriv@secretlaboratory.org.
Flourish and Prosper
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Any business can flourish and prosper—or at least survive—in any economic climate. For our intents and purposes, all business wounds are self-inflicted and failures are internally-generated because of ignorance of these basic laws of ethics and management: 1. Use only…
Be Effective
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A philosopher once said that life is in you today and you are constantly creating your own tomorrow. Kind of puts things in perspective. You are not creating yesterday; you are done with that. Right this very second you are…
Review of The Next Three Days
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Heavily promoted as Paul Haggis’ first action flick, employing the A-listers Russell Crowe and Liam Nisson, The Next Three Days falls into the basket case category. The redeeming factor, however, is that it is miss-marketed and does not rightfully belong in the…
The Vowel Movement
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Their lips met in a titillating kiss, hearts throbbing, hands exploring. “Darling,” she whispered—the tender embrace ushering the eternity, her sweet breath on his, their lips locked, “My darling …” Just a minute. Apart from the obvious gawkiness of the…
Faith
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“Gran’pa Baltazar, tell us a story! Gran’pa Baltazar, tell us a story-y-y!” the little ones nagged shrilly, tugging on the old man’s tunic. “Well, alright, my little pigeons, gather ’round.” Old Baltazar eyed the small fry affectionately. His four little…
Iraq War, The Story of Betrayal
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4,486 U.S. Soldiers Killed, 32,226 Seriously Wounded A horrifying story of deceit, betrayal and murder has just come to the end. The war in Iraq is over. The war was originally supported by a majority of Americans. The Iraq war itself…
