http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Matt+Garrett Internet Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202729&ca=Internet If you are someone who has spent much time as an online publisher you may have had the experience of seeing your content show up on another website without your permission, and without any links to send its readers your way so that you might at least have a shot at getting their business. If so, you... Recreation Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202747&ca=Recreation Roses have always been associated with love and death. The ancient Greeks believed that the first rose was created when Chloris, the goddess of flowers, came upon a dying wood nymph and transformed her into a flower. Then the goddess of love, Aphrodite, gave the flower its beauty, and the god of win... Society Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202748&ca=Society Stars. The ancient peoples of the Earth first worshiped them, and assigned them the power to direct the fate of each human being. Shakespeare’s Cassius laments, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves.” The late Carl Sagan, in describing the physical connectedness of human bei... Culture Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202749&ca=Culture The oldest known tattoo is that found on Oetzi, a Bronze Age warrior who lived some fifty-three centuries ago. Oetzi’s remains were founding 1991 preserved in the ice of the of an Alpone glacier on the border of Austria and Italy. Oetzi actually had fifty-seven separate tattoos, and although no one... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202753&ca=Family+Concerns Very few people go into marriage and begin raising a family thinking that they will divorce, but the reality of US family life in the 21st century is that the majority of marriages end in divorce. And for divorcing couples with children, the children all too often end up in the middle of their paren... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202754&ca=Family+Concerns One of life’s most painful lessons is that death is final, and by the time we are adult is we have come to terms with its finality. We may struggle with its inevitability, but we understand that when someone or something dies, the loss of life is permanent. But we had to come to that realization in... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202756&ca=Family+Concerns If you want to devastate an American kid, call him of her a “loser.” Losers are the ones who go home empty-handed, who don’t get invited back to pay the next game, and who spend their entire lives sitting on the sidelines while the winners are calling the shots. Popular culture in the US is heavily... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202757&ca=Family+Concerns There will come a time in every parent’s life when the influence he or she has on a child seems to take a back seat to the influence the child’s friends have. That time is known as “adolescence” and it can be the toughest period of a child's upbringing for even the strongest of parents. When kids re... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202758&ca=Family+Concerns There’s a secret to understanding anger, and it is simple. Anger, almost always, is not the first reaction someone has to a situation; there is a prior emotion like disappointment or sadness which precedes the anger. Parenting angry kids can be difficult; sometimes it can be nearly impossible. But u... Family Concerns Matt Garrett Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202759&ca=Family+Concerns I can vividly remember when my first child was born, holding her in my arms for the first time and experiencing more emotions in just a few moments than I ever realized was possible. The mixture of joy, relief, wonder and awe was both exhilarating and a bit scary. Along with the relief that both mot...