April Flowers is a wandering gypsy, with a deep-seated conviction that every road she has not yet traveled is an adventure waiting to happen. Mentally and emotionally unable to stay in one place very long, April and her bright yellow Xterra can be found anywhere between Texas and South Dakota, following the wind. When she isn't hiking, kayaking, or flipping a coin to decide which way to turn on the next highway, she can be found writing everything from awesome redOrbit.com articles to a truly terrible novel and some stinky poetry.
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Have you ever wondered how deaf people experience a movie? How do they know what is happening, especially in a movie where there are narrators, or off camera actors speaking, when they can’t read lips?
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You, faithful reader, are getting to know a lot about me lately, so here’s your newest tidbit of information. I’m fat, obese, overweight, plus sized. I’m a “big girl.”
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My grandmother died from breast cancer and it is not a pretty death. It is ugly and painful and draining on everyone around you.
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Racism is a dirty word. Even dirtier is engaging in such practices, which we (and I mean all humans) have been doing since we first noticed differences between the races. It is one of our oldest sins. No matter how evolved we are becoming, however, we seem to drag this albatross around with us, teaching hate to the next generation.
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What do you get when you combine DNA sequencing with World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologists? Maybe, just maybe, you get the end of another world wide killer; malaria.
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Remember the tabletop video games of the 80s? I used to love to play Pac-Man and Asteroid on those tables. Kids today play games on tiny iPads and smart phones and game consoles, but there was something just so intriguing about playing with a whole table.
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I was really excited to see a particular episode of The Following because there was going to be BDSM club as part of the storyline and I had hopes they would portray these folks in a positive and realistic light. WRONG!
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I just read one of the scariest articles I’ve ever laid my eyes on. Nope, it wasn’t written by Richard Preston or even Stephen King. It is a Huffington Post article about a new bill being proposed to the House of Representatives Science Committee.
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We are all involved in social networking, whether you use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or some other site. I doubt there are even ten percent of redOrbit readers who don’t have some form of social networking open as they read this.
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Geocaching is one of the most enjoyable scavenger hunt type games in the world. And apparently a LOT of people agree with me. In the last thirty days alone, over 7 million caches have been logged.
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