Humor
Published: 16/12/2007
When a project's finished months after its completion date or a debt's repaid long after it was due or a guest arrives hours after expected, we tell ourselves better late than never. But is it?
Passengers on the Titanic, who might have been late arriving for their voyage, would have preferred...
Published: 16/12/2007
Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses - well, they didn't until eyeglasses became a fashion statement. Now people spend hundreds of dollars on designer frames.
Designer frames are a status symbol. They're for others to see you can afford them - but they're not for me. I can't see...
Published: 16/12/2007
I don't know about you, but I need a vacation. It doesn't have to be at an exotic location. It doesn't have to be break-the-bank expensive. I just need to get away so I can appreciate what I have when I come back. What I have might be a little dustier, but I'll appreciate it more.
The last...
Published: 16/12/2007
My grandmother would say the English language has gone to hell in a handbasket. I agree; but because I didn't know where that saying came from, I Googled it. I found out that in 1714 the governor of Piscataqua said something about giving his head in a handbasket before passing something. Then, of...
Published: 16/12/2007
Living in Los Angeles without meditating would be like living in Seattle without drinking coffee - hard to swallow. Today, thankfully, you don't have to have long hair, sandals and a tie-dyed t-shirt. Today the look is Richard Gere without tie-dye. It's not Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton or Nicole...
Published: 16/12/2007
The plasma screen of life is out of focus. My husband and I were late getting to a party. Although the host had given us directions, we got lost. Grab my heart and fall to the floor, John pulled into a gas station and asked for directions.
What is this world coming to when a doctor with...
Published: 16/12/2007
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...
Published: 16/12/2007
My mailman hates junk mail as much as I do. Instead of putting it in the mailboxes, he stacks it neatly on the floor next to the mailboxes. I'm not sure he's fulfilling his "neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor dark of night" postal duties; but I consider my mailman a hero - a man in uniform...
Published: 16/12/2007
Some aspects of my personal development have developed unexplainably slowly. Why did I wait so long to appreciate naps? Naps revitalize me more than energy drinks and they're more luxurious than bubble baths. Oh, now I remember why I didn't take naps. I didn't have time.
Facials are another...
Published: 16/12/2007
Everyone should have a hobby. That's what my grandmother said. She believed "Busy hands were happy hands"; and if I didn't keep my hands busy, she'd tell me "Idle hands do the Devil's work".
To prove she had the patients of a saint Grandmother taught me how to knit. Then all I wanted to do...
