Women live an average of five years longer than men. That shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s life.
It begins with girls playing less violent games. As girls grow up, they play the same sports as boys; but they don’t play them as violently. When girls grow from adolescence to womanhood, they’re […]
An adage is a time-tested truism, but some adages don’t ad up anymore. “A penny saved is a penny earned” has deflated in meaning because of inflation.
“Penny-wise and pound foolish” is an English adage. Here it would be more effective as an ad for Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. Another truism about money is “A […]
What a difference a day makes - unless you’re going through life on automatic. Scientists are no help. They say we shouldn’t sleep late even if we have the chance. Supposedly not getting up at the same time every day has a negative effect on our biorhythms. Obviously, those scientists don’t have young children.
I try […]
No one man has all the qualities I want my president to have, but maybe I want too much. I want a man of the people - someone who understands the problems of the common man - someone who tells it like it is - someone like a termite inspector.
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All three of these are true; I couldn’t have made them up. I was an eye witness to all three and even ate some of number three. If you are a little queasy, you might want to read these accounts a bit later when your system has settled down. […]
“The check’s in the mail”. “No, you don’t look fat in that”. “You don’t look that old”. These are familiar exaggerations, white lies or what my grandmother called Pinocchio noses.
A building contractor nose how to convince you the remodeling will be done on time. A used car dealer nose how to make an old car […]
There are three types of photo collections - those in albums, those in boxes and those on refrigerator doors. Refrigerator photos are for people who think outside the box.
I don’t like having my picture taken. If a picture is worth a thousand words, there are millions of words available to show why I don’t […]
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Goldilocks. When I was a little girl, this was just a bedtime story. As an adult, I can read the lesson between the lines. Picky people are hard to bear.
When I heard the story of “Cinderella”, I wanted glass slippers. Now I would need […]
I admit it. I need a twelve-step program for people addicted to mail order catalogs. I was clean and shopless for eight months. I was able to put every catalog that came in the mail into the wastebasket without opening a page.
Unfortunately, my resistance crumbled when I was marooned in a doctor’s waiting room without […]
Once upon a time, not too long ago, my husband thought I had too many credit cards - especially for clothing shops and department stores. John thought having so many credit cards could discredit our credit.
I charged salon services, movie tickets and luncheons with friends - which seem to cost more than lunches. Anyway […]
