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The Day Steve Irwin Died

Posted on May 2, 2025May 5, 2025 by Ari Johnson

A True Tale from the Life of Ari Johnson

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How To Choose an Annual Book and Become Memorable… and also a review of The Proposal.

Posted on November 1, 2024November 1, 2024 by Ari Johnson

If you are a watcher of chick flicks then you are already most likely familiar with one of the greats called The Proposal. If you’ve seen this movie you might have briefly wondered how much older Sandra Bullock was than Ryan Reynolds (the answer is 12 years) but you most likely put that inquisition aside…

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4 Ways To Become A Less Bored Person

Posted on October 23, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

There were some things my siblings and I were not allowed to say growing up.  “Shut up”… Super banned “I hate you”… You are definitely losing your dinner and getting cayenne pepper on the tongue “I wish you had never been born”… This was the worst of all things to say. My mom told us…

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For Every Mother

Posted on October 22, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

A True Tale from the Life of Ari Johnson

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WHO GET’S GRANDPAS $$$: The Jacob and Esau Family Curse

Posted on October 21, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

To my cousins who willingly vow each year to resist the family curse. Arguably one of the greatest stories in all of literature is the story of Jacob and Esau in the Bible.  Esau is the oldest and therefore the first in line to get all of his father’s blessings and money. BUT HE SELLS…

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My Chocolate Chip Cookie Story

Posted on October 17, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

This story is dedicated to my Tahitian Uncle/Cousin Hanny, who taught me how to make Chocolate Chip Cookies, and to Mrs. Fields Cookies No. 2, the greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe in the entire world.  Note on the text: I will be capitalizing the words “Chocolate Chip Cookie” because this dessert deserves the respect of…

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The Crime Family Brownie Experiment

Posted on August 27, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

To my crime family: Matteo and Sabina you were good parents and taught me how to be a shrewd business owner and baker. To my brothers Marco, Carlos, Vincenzo and Amadeo: your relentless bullying gave me a tough skin which is needed to live in Chicago in the 1950s. I hope you are all proud of me.

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My Namesake, The Mermaid

Posted on August 18, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

A True Tale from the Life of Ari Johnson

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Bring Back The Waltz

Posted on August 4, 2024November 2, 2024 by Ari Johnson

Just letting you know right off the bat that you’re going to want to pull up YouTube/Spotify/Pandora (do people even use Pandora for music anymore?) before reading this… and start playing waltz music. It doesn’t really matter what kind of waltz music… OH WAIT YES IT DOES Russian waltz would be the best to play…

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Get a Thinner Bubble

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Ari Johnson

4. Years. Ago. I was walking the streets on a dry, hot, dismal night in a small suburb of Calgary Alberta Canada. I was there as a proselyting missionary to share the message of Jesus Christ with anyone… literally anyone who would listen. That night my companion and I walked home after a long day…

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“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

“Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them — that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

“I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.”

“‘Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.‘”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?"

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

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