While every stage of childhood development is important, the most stressful mentally and physically is adolescence. By age 12/13 we have become self aware and socially aware individuals that recognize ourselves and our surroundings but that can cause mental distress upon the physical transformations. Some psychological professionals have argued ( Read more... )

Still on the subject of magazines, has anyone else wondered who these people are who still write into the help columns? It seems a little bit ridiculous to me that in a day and age where anything can be googled or discussed with anonymous strangers in a chat room, that anyone would bother to write a letter to a magazine. I can see there being a ( Read more... )

Has anyone picked up an issue of Maxim lately and actually tried to read it? There have times when I have heard it compared to Cosmopolitan but I thought surely that could not be the case. However, I am a sucker for Eva Mendes and having her on the cover was enough to make my sleep deprived brain pick up a copy in whatever airport I was in. ( Read more... )

"The time," my friend declared, "has come for you to purchase an apartment of your own." I deciphered this through the static on the phone as the waves crossed the great ocean and landed in my ear. I suppose that they just saw what everyone else did. It was ridiculous of a man who's toured the world several times, released a gold selling cd, and ( Read more... )

repeat offender

Everytime I think I can, I can't.

[done. no time to update, no time to pick another sam. Thank you Leigh, Justin, and Shirley]

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity" Alberto Giacometti ( Read more... )

Past Tense ( Read more... )

This is the only public entry I will make. My name is Sam Endicott and I am the lead singer of a band from NYC called, The Bravery. We were born the day I sat on the beach in Italy and thought, "Life is Shit." With that sentiment, we're not much different then other bands except we are good. If you want to know something unique about myself I ( Read more... )