The Nahmias Cipher Report

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair [...]

Today we have bigger houses and smaller families More conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less common sense, More knowledge, but less judgment, We have more experts, and more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, Drive too fast, get angry far too quickly, Stay up [...]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 70,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see [...]

Nahmias Cipher Report: Staff Writer Last Modified: 14:26 PM EDT, 31 December 2011 “One day at a time–this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 02:47 AM EDT, 30 December 2011 “Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you.  And in this age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” ~ Mildred Norman In this time of global economic instability people in the United States and Europe are [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 17:14 PM EDT, 26 December 2011 Nearly 300,000 women worldwide may be adversely impacted by the improper manufacture of breast implants by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP).  The malfeasance came to light when the French company which went bankrupt in 2010 was subsequently sold to a Dutch [...]

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense. Mr. Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 01:52 AM EDT, 31 October 2011 There are many voices within the global and American landscape that continually challenge us to peek behind the veil, to question authority, and practice free thought. In past decades,  authors, philosophers and even filmmakers provided the impetus for us to dig deeper beneath the [...]

I narrowly survived an infection of cerebral malaria when I was 10 years old.  We lived just outside of Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, and because my father did not believe in Western medicine, he forbade my mother from seeking treatment for me when I fell ill.  If treated at the immediate onset [...]