My "It Hurts Right There" Articles

"Doctor, it hurts whenever I go like this ---"

To check out my articles on particularly painful ailments, see:

• My Celiac Disease Articles
• My Heart Disease Articles
• My Diabetes Articles
• My Cold Sore Articles
• My Headache Articles

From webctor.com:
Treatments for Myelodysplastic Syndrome
What You Need to Know About Sjogren’s Syndrome
What You Need to Know About Sickle Cell Anemia


From Suite 101:
Should You Pop a Sebaceous Cyst?

 

My Self-Promotion Articles

Articles about promoting whatever you what to promote, not articles about me promoting myself.

(Image of PG at a promo stop for his first CD-ROM, Xplora; ca. 1994.  I wonder whatever happened to that shirt.)

Articles from Yahoo! Voices:
Microblogging: Why Bother
How to Make Money on HubPages
Why You Need to Market Yourself Online if You're Self-Employed

From TechnologyBlogged.com, where I am "Jakk":
The Implications of Google Suggest on Reputation Management

My Unrequited Love Articles

Yes, Peter Gabriel is my big unrequited love.  However, he's been the best boyfriend I've ever had.  He never eats the last donut, he doesn't talk during the best parts of Star Trek and I don't have to deal with his family.  Come to think of it, I'm a lucky gal.

(Photo taken ca. 1989 during promotion for Passion album.)

From Yahoo! Voices:
Ways of Dealing with Unrequited Love

My Funny (Ha-Ha) Articles

These are articles that I hope will make you laugh.  And, remember, Peter is laughing at you, not with you.

From eHow:
How to Talk Like John Cleese
How to Talk Like William Shatner
How to Live Like Howard Hughes

From Celsias.com:
Climate Change Causes Caterpillar Kerfluffle
The Dead Enviornmentalist


From Yahoo! Voices:
15 Things to Do in a German Hotel Room when the Television Won't Work
The Key in My Hotel Wall
The Red Bull and Toilet Paper Lady
101 Uses for a Dead Tea Bag

My Food Articles

Photo of Peter taken in the Pump Rooms, Bath, UK.  Now, if you are what you eat than here PG must be full of imagination, becuse that spoon is empty.  Great photo, though!

From eHow:
What Are Food Minerals?

From webctor.com:
Learning About the My Pyramid Food Guidance System
7 Foods that Help You Lose Weight
8 Great Snacks Under 80 Calories Each
12 Super Foods to Help Shrink Your Belly
10 Top Foods for Your Brain
10 Foods that Help Build Muscle Bulk
10 Filthiest Foods that You are Eating

My Mad Cow Articles

From WebMD (written by WebMD folks, not me):

The disease can affect all age groups and is very hard to diagnose until it has nearly run its course. In the early stages of vCJD, people have symptoms related to the nervous system, like depression and loss of coordination. Later in the illness, dementia develops. But only in advanced stages of the disease can brain abnormalities be detected by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). vCJD is fatal, usually within 13 months of the onset of symptoms.
 

You don't hear much about mad cow disease anymore.  Here are links to my mad cow articles for anyone nostalgic for the good old days when mad cow disease made headlines around the world:

From eHow:
How Does BSE Spread Among Cattle?
Facts on Mad Cow

My England Articles

Peter shows how everyone dresses in England.  I spent just over five years in England and, although most of that time I was homeless, miss England like crazy.  If I didn't have family commitments in America, I'd live in England.

Then again, I don't know if I'm allowed back in England...

(Image of PG as the character Britannia back in his Genesis days.)

From eHow:
How to Find a Long-Lost Friend in England
How to Busk in Bath, England
How to Learn Cockney Rhyming Slang

From HubPages:
Differences Between Keeping Dogs in England and America (Written with tongue firmly planted in cheek.)
Differences Between Keeping Cats in American and England (Ditto)
The Medicinal Properties of Clove Oil (or, How England's Homeless Population Treats Toothache)

From Yahoo! Voices:
American Manners Vs English Manners
My Favorite Summer Vacation: Bath, England in 1996
How the UK's NHS Saved This American's Life
Monty Python's King Arthur Vs the Historical King Arthur

From Celsias.com:
How to Cook and Eat Trashed Food (Or, How England's Homeless Eat)

My ReasonsNotToCommitSuicide Blog Posts

I have a WordPress blog called ReasonsNotToCommitSuicide, which is about mental health, stress, living with depression and other fun stuff like that. Here are links to some of the blog posts.

The image is a randon screencap from one of Peter Gabriel's vlogs to his fans, which he did more or less monthly from 2002 to 2012.

My Mom's Suicidal Attempt Story
Having Suicidal Thoughts? Read This!
The Last Time I Tried to Commit Suicide
Dealing With Pinterest Guilt
Don't Feel Guilty for Wanting to Commit Suicide
BBC Horizon Documentary "Mad But Glad"
BBC 4 "Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die"
So The Bad Guys Win -- Suicide is Still Not a Solution
Feelings Are Not Facts
People Suck. Stay Alive Anyway.
No One Wants to Listen to Your Problems -- But Stay Alive Anyway
How to Tell If Someone is Cutting Themselves
What Is Reverse Culture Shock?
Study Links Depression of Moms with Short Kids

My Writing Tips

I've been writing professionally since 2006.  However, if you were to add up the value of everything I've written, it still would not scratch the surface of anything Peter Gabriel has written.

Here, PG is kindly giving autographs.  This is a fan photo I found on the web somewhere, taken ca. 2010.

My Writing Tips Pinboard

From eHow:
How to Write an Article for Helium
How to Blog at 451 Press
How to Use a Semicolon in Bible Scripture (I was assigned the title)

My Autograph Articles

Currently, most of the web content about collecting autographs that I've written is no longer up.  Perhaps they'll pop back up somewhere soon, due to the nature of the Internet.  In the meantime, enjoy these image of Peter Gabriel autographs.  Yes, he has the handwriting of a genius.

(Please do not use these images for commercial use because I have no idea what the copyright is on them. Thanks.)

From Yahoo! Voices:
The Day I Met Patrick Stewart (and got his autograph)

My Scorp Articles

I'm a Scorpio, not a scorpion, but I get pretty much this reaction whenever Peter sees me.

(Image is a screencap of Peter's 1992 award-winning video, Steam. It's also the only video of his that my Mom likes.)

Here is a short selection of my articles on scorps (Scorpios or scorpions) that I've done over the years:

From HubPages:
What to Feed Your Pet Scorpion
Do Scorpions Make Good Pets?

From Yahoo! Voices:
Proper Feeding of Emperor Scorpions
What Scorpio Women Need to Know About Love

From eHow:
How to Repell Scorpions

My Tree Articles

In his 2008 TED talk, Peter Gabriel announced that he liked trees.  You know what? So do I.  Life would be better with more trees in it and less people.  When I was homeless, I expereincened very few advantages, but one of them was surrounding myself with trees instead of people.

The image of Peter here was taken not too far from where I lived on the banks of the River Avon. I'm afraid I don't know who the photographer is of this lovely image.

The following is a small selection of tree articles I've written since 2006.

From Yahoo! Voices:
Why Live Trees Should Never Be Cut Down For Christmas
Magnolia Tree Problems: Ants
Protecting Trees and Shrubs From Wild Rabbits (Shooting the rabbits is not an option)
Does Boric Acid Kill Fruit Flies On Trees?

From dbtechno.com, where I am listed as "Staff":
Rare Chinese Tree Finally Blooms After 30 Years

From eHow, who would give me the weirdest titles you can imagine:
A Silver Birch Compared to a Leopard Tree
Can Black Ants Kill a Tree? (Short answer: No) 
Do Ants Eat the Roots of Fruit Trees? (Also no)
Insects Under the Bark on Maple Trees
Can Mole Crickets Kill an Oak Tree? (Short answer: yes, in some cases)
Tree Fungus Control
Pecan Tree Worms
What Kind of Trees Will Woodpeckers Peck?

My Peter Gabriel Concert Reviews

I've only been to a large handful of Peter Gabriel concerts since 1987 (damn -- they're expensive!) but have managed to make back about $20 with these reviews.

(Image of PG with Jim Kerr at a 1988 gig at old Wembly Stadium to support then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. PG & Kerr are performing "Biko.")

From Yahoo! Voices:
Concert Review Peter Gabriel Live On Letterman 11/9/2011 (free concert for fans, CBS and Citibank employees)
Peter Gabriel; O2 Berlin World Arena 3/24/10
Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 5/2/2010

What Peter Gabriel Looks Like in My Dreams

I've been dreaming about  Peter Gabriel since 1986.  I'm not sure who I love more -- the real Peter Gabriel or the one I dream about.  The web abounds in hundreds of PG images.  I can't possibly collect them all (and, quite frankly, some pictures of PG out there are less than flattering.) 

So how do I choose which image to download?  If the image closely resembles the PG in my dreams.  I can't post these images to my sleep and dreaming blog, Dreaming of Peter so they're going here.

From Yahoo! Voices:

The Man of Your Dreams: Does He Exist?

What the Heck are Spirit Guides and Why Won't Mine Act Like One?

From eHow:
How to Recognize When You're Dreaming

Resurrecting rraven's ghostwritten whispers

Hi, there.  I know it's been a few years since I last posted on this blog.  I'm going to be resurrecting it, but it's going to go in a different direction.

Originally, this blog acted as an online portfolio of the web content I've written -- articles, blogs, product descriptions, reviews - stuff like that -- but I write hundreds of pieces of content a year and so trying to find and list them all became an impossible task. 

Now, I'm going to concentrate on displaying my Peter Gabriel digital image collection while occassionally making links to stuff I wrote that may go with the photo.  Since I last posted in this blog, my computer's hard drive crashed twice and SolsburyHill.org and it's huge library of PG photos went offline.  This blog would make a nice back-up, as well as displaying both the images and some of my work.

Also, I need to put these images online somehow so I can pin them on Pinterest.  An ongoing project, you can take a look at my Peter Gabriel pinboard.  If you're sick of Peter Gabriel but want some more eye candy, then you can look at Men Other Than Peter Gabriel.  If you want to know about writing, check out My Writing Tips. 

I still write about Peter Gabriel news in my first blog, The Perfect Blog Title (yes, I know that's not exaclt the perfect blog title but it's too late to change it now.)  Dreams I have of Peter are sometimes talked about on my monetized blog, Dreaming of Peter.  Because that is a monetized blog, I cannot risk posting any images that might be copyrighted.

And if you're a long time Peter Gabriel fan and haven't figured it out by now, the image above to the left is Photoshopped that a fan did in 2010 to celebrate PG's 60th birthday.  PG's hair divorced PG back in 1997.

Enjoy!

My Pug Articles

Many people have wondered why Peter Gabriel left Genesis back in 1975. Peter himself has said it was because of creative differences and that he was burnt out. But he was lying. He really left because he was sick and tired of being chased by Pugs in bee costumes.

From eHow:
Why is My Pug Always Hungry?
How to Stop My Chinese Pug from Shedding

From Yahoo! Voices:
Starting a Pug Dog Rescue in Pennsylvania

Other doggy articles of mine include:

My Labrador Retriever Articles
My Dog Articles

 

My Hypnotism Articles

Don't blame me for ruining this picture. Peter made me do it.  (I used Microsoft Paint.)

(Click over there for my articles on alternative medicine.)

From HubPages:
Differences Between Hypnosis And Brainwashing
Self Hypnosis For Hyperhidrosis

From Yahoo! Voices:
Using Hypnosis for Weight Loss

My Air Purifier Articles

My theory is that if Peter Gabriel can breathe over everything, it's purified. However, my clients don't agreee, so I've had to write articles about those other kinds of air filters. Poopers.


From Savvy Cafe (Note: Savvy Cafe is in limbo since August 2012 as the owner decides what to do with it):
What the Heck is an Ionic Pro Air Purifier?
Ionic Air Purifiers Are Not For Everybody
Why Are Ionic Air Purifiers So Popular?
Use Ionic Pro Mini Air Purifier To Get Rid Of Smoke Smells ("It's tough for marijuana smokers today...")
Should You Get An Ionic Auto Air Purifier? (Not if you care about the ozone layer.)
Is An Ionic Pro Compact Air Purifier Worth It?

My Horseback Riding Articles

Yee-haw!

(Not to be confused with My Horse Articles or My Model Horse Articles).

From the blog Riding a Horse, where I am listed as Larrie:

You Better Know the Rules for Riding a Horse on the Road
English Horse Riding Gear for You and Your Horse

From the blog Horse Rider, where I am listed as Marco:
Don't Worry Yourself to Death About Horse Riding Injuries
What to Expect in Your First Horseback Riding Class

From Helium:
Horseback Riding: How to Post the Trot
How to Mount a Horse
Handicapped Horseback Riding For Children
Horseback Riding: How to Make the Most of Riding Lessons

From eHow:
How to Determine Correct Stirrup Length
How to Strengthen Legs for Horseback Riding
What Is a Riding Crop?

My Gardening Articles

The only crop I can grow successfully is stinging nettles. Even if I plant something else, it seems to always come up stinging nettles. I consider it a talent. Peter happens to be quite a good gardener (if the rumors are to be believed). Here he is in fall of 2008 planting roots in Berlin.

Other gardening related topics having their own sections include:

*My Orchid Articles
*My Lawn of the Devil Articles
*My Garden Hedge Articles
*My Bonsai Articles

From HubPages:
Common Cat Repellants

From Linkroll:
Three Best Landscape Software Programs for Regular People
What Can You Do with Landscape Software?
What are the Qualities of Good Garden Landscape Software?
Don't Ask Geeks About Home Landscape Software
Keep Safe When Checking Out Free Home Landscape Software
The Disadvantages of Free Landscape Architect Software
Where to Go for Unbiased Landscape Software Reviews