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  • The New Midlife Crisis (Millennials will experience the "Midlife Crisis" much differently)

    05/16/2024 4:32:52 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 48 replies
    First Things ^ | June 2024 | Matthew Schmitz
    Check all the boxes, then chuck it all aside at forty to follow your muse. Play by the rules and win, only to decide that you don’t want the prize. Most of the rebellions were minor. The devoted housewife informed her husband that she would not be cooking dinner for the family on Tuesday and Thursday nights, as she was finally taking the art class she had always dreamed of. The cliché for men was the red convertible. But some people set off explosions: quitting jobs, filing for divorce, engaging in affairs. For Baby Boomers, the midlife crisis was very...
  • Field of Flags goes up at National Mall - one for each of the 200,000 Americans who can't attend the inauguration

    01/18/2021 5:49:54 PM PST · by fruser1 · 112 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 18 January 2021 | Valerie Edwards
    Thousands of US flags have been placed at the National Mall in honor of the nearly 200,000 Americans who were not able to be present for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The display, which is called the 'Field of Flags,' is comprised of 191,500 US flags and 56 pillars of light. Images taken on Monday showed the flags carefully placed in rows near the US Capitol. The flags are representative of the Americans who cannot travel to Washington, DC, to attend the inauguration in person due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Thai tsunami trauma sparks rash of foreign ghost sightings

    01/13/2005 6:58:53 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 17 replies · 1,337+ views
    Agence France Presse ^ | Jan. 13, 2005 | Staff
    PATONG, Thailand (AFP) - A second surge of tsunami terror is hitting southern Thailand, but this time it is a wave of foreign ghosts terrifying locals in what health experts described as an outpouring of delayed mass trauma. AFP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Asian Tsunami Disaster Tales of ghost sightings in the six worst hit southern provinces have become endemic, with many locals saying they are too terrified to venture near the beach or into the ocean. Spooked volunteer body searchers on the resort areas of Phi Phi island and Khao Lak are reported to have looked for tourists heard...