My looks aren’t mine. I could tell you I look like Jacquelyn Smith with blond hair or Diane Sawyer with short hair or Jamie Lee Curtis with better movie choices, but my looks depend on how others see me.
Technically, I look like the combination of my mother’s egg and my father’s sperm; but because […]
How do we handle the stress of life? Zen and yoga are probably on top of the list. But what’s the next best thing?
Humor. Definitely humor.
Somehow it clears the mind. It’s hard to be mad or sad when you’re laughing. When impending clouds of gloom are pierced with […]
A litterbug is someone who drops something, but picks it up when asked. Litterbugs who don’t respond to “Excuse me, you dropped something” should be called litter roaches.
Frequently you see people in orange vests picking up litter along highways. Often this is punishment for their wrongdoings. Unfortunately, when wrongdoers pick up others’ wrongdoings, two […]
Housework is like raising kids - it’s never done. Take dusting - please. Supposedly you’re meant to dust after you vacuum because vacuuming causes more dust. Living causes dust.
I can see dust falling while I’m trying to wipe it away. Over the years I’ve replaced our dark furniture with light-colored furniture trying to camouflage […]
Someone super sized my supermarket. Because we moved, we changed supermarkets. Although it’s less than four miles away, it’s worlds apart.
In addition to the usual items, it has a Starbucks and a bank. You need a bank if you’re a regular Starbuck’s customer.
It also has a pharmacy and a florist. Now you can […]
Chinese food - my favourite. I’m particularly partial to spare ribs, although I have often wondered why certain animals have bits which are considered “spare.”
It is often misquoted that women have one extra rib compared to men, a fallacy which is no doubt biblical in origin. Anatomically, both men and women have twelve pairs of […]
Once, in the name of science, I let my younger son buy four rats. The rats were for a science project and he agreed to take them back to the pet store IMMEDIATELY after the project was finished.
In spite of this agreement, I wanted to return the rats the next day - or as […]
I live in the land of flashy cars. In LA you are what you drive - even if you’re driving yourself into debt.
If you buy a Bentley, a Ferrari, a Maserati or a Rolls Royce you’re buying an attention-getting car. If you buy a BMW, a Jaguar or a Mercedes, you’re buying an economy […]
I’m not in the fast lane. What’s in and what’s on the road pass me by. My car is thirty-eight years old. In people years that’s five hundred ninety.
I’ve had my car for twenty of its thirty-eight years. In DMV years twenty is at least four times I haven’t
had to register a new car. […]
First impressions count and it’s a well known fact that we judge people within the first seven seconds of meeting them. Whether we like them, trust them or even want to keep talking to them is all determined in a very short space of time. If this is the case, then why has Alan Sugar, […]
