Author Archive: Eric San Juan

How to Create a Creatively Stimulating Home For Your Family

Your home should be many things. It should be relaxing, it should be fun. It’s a place where you create memories. That’s the bare minimum that we should expect from our homes, which tend to cost a lot of time, energy, and money. Given these costs, it’s a good idea to ask for more. For example, one good idea is to work on ensuring that your home nourishes your family’s mind. This is actually a lot easier to do than most people realize. Just by adding a few things and making some modifications, you can give your home a healthy dose of creativity. Check out our tips below, and it won’t be long before you’re on your way towards having a creative home. Pexels –…
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14 Seconds: Short Fiction

14 seconds of oxygen left. She pulled at the airlock handle again. It wouldn’t budge. She could feel the heat of the flames behind her and the ringing of the damned klaxon was boring into her skull and the handle wouldn’t budge, because of course it wouldn’t, and the klaxon wouldn’t shup up. 13 seconds of oxygen left. When she was 12, she wanted to ride horses. She knew it was a cliché even then, but it didn’t deter her. She wasn’t the princess type, she didn’t dream of elegant gowns and fancy ballrooms and Prince Charmings, but horses? Absolutely. The more horses the better. Not riding side saddle with a stiff back and “proper” air, though. That wasn’t her. She wanted to ride horses…
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The Girl and the Dog: Fiction Fragment

She reached down for the water bottle at her side, remembered it was empty only when she brought to her lips, sighed, and hung her head. “I should have stayed in the city.” She knew she was wrong about that, of course. The city is where it all started. Things were still bad there. And the smell? She didn’t want to think about the smell. But at least she knew what to do in the city. What abandoned stores to search, which apartments had storerooms others might now know about, what neighborhoods were left at least somewhat intact after the Event. She could find something to eat there. Something to drink. A place to sleep. Hell is other people, though, as someone once said. However…
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Trying to Boost Yourself Financially

A lot of people now are in financial hardship, this could be because they have lost a job or a partner has lost a job and now the pressure is on them. The problem is that some people just do not know what they could do to help themselves or to try and get out of the rut they are in, some may look towards an endless income scam and that can mean they have spent time doing something that gets them nowhere. If you are or you think you may end up facing financial difficulty and you are unsure how you can manage your money better and try to get out the other side of it then hopefully, these few tips will help boost…
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Sign me up for this Father’s Day beer box, please!

I’ve followed the craft beer world for a lot of years, as a former beer columnist for the Philadelphia Weekly, a writer for HomeBrew Talk, and just plain as an enthusiast for varied taste experiences. Over the years, I’ve encountered many beer gift boxes and/or monthly beer clubs. You know the ones I’m talking about. Seemingly random mix packs at your local beer shop, or Beer of the Month clubs that send you an array of beers in the mail each month. To be frank, most of the time these mix packs are kind of awful. The beers are often old, the selections are lousy (and are likely made up of overstock rather than by choice made by discerning craft beer geeks), and they’re just…
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