Found in the inner bark of the tropical evergreen tree, there are approximately between 50 and 250 different species of cinnamon. A native of Sri Lanka, cinnamon grows best among the coastal strip of Columbo. The two main varieties of cinnamon include cinnamomum cassia and cinnanonuim zeylanicum. In ancient Egypt, cinnamon was mainly used as ...
Children learn by asking questions. Students learn by asking questions. New recruits learn by asking questions. Innovators understand client needs by asking questions. It is the simplest and most effective way of learning. People who think that they know it all no longer ask questions – why should they? Brilliant thinkers never stop asking questions ...
Television characters we follow, whether in books, the movies, or on television, exude personality. We recognize them immediately and identify with them like a member of the family or a friend. It takes time to know a person-how he thinks and feels, but it doesn’t take long to recognize him by his gestures, mannerisms, activities, ...
In February of 1968 a short, disheveled, seemingly incompetent detective debuted on television investigating the murder of a psychiatrist’s (Gene Barry) wife in “Prescription For Murder.” Thirty-five years and 68 episodes later, this detective solved his last case. Of course without further description, everyone recognizes Lieutenant Columbo, LAPD played so brilliantly by Peter Falk. So ...
Suffering from a bout of insomnia recently, I caught an old movie entitled “Guilty Conscience,” starring the incomparable Anthony Hopkins as a rich lawyer who is plotting to do away with his wife, played by Blythe Danner. Hopkins’ character has every reason, in his own mind, to kill his wife. The wife is on the ...