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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, is skin deep and is 99% attitude - we hear it, but we don’t believe it. If we did, we wouldn’t spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics.
But it’s not just women. Ten years ago women spent ten times more than men did on beauty products. Now we spend four times more…
Every day’s a gift - some are just wrapped better than others. A crisp, spring afternoon with a cloudless sky; rain that finally goes and snow that never comes - I feel like I have a fair-weather friend - me.
I feel like I have the Midas touch when my checkbook balances on my first try…
I’ve come to the conclusion that confusion is our fifty-first state. Take men, for example. I was fathered by a man, married one and gave birth to two - but I still don’t understand them…
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…
Jenny Craig, NutriSystem and Weight Watchers are all established names in the diet business, but Jenny Craig took a risk. She put her name on her program. Now she has to put all her weight behind her program and none on her hips…
My grandmother told me I could take her anywhere - except for granted. Microwaves, TiVo’s, iphones, Swifters - things I use automatically would have changed my grandmother’s life…
Blowing out birthday candles, seeing a falling star, saying a word at the same time someone else does, blowing away an eyelash - although there are lots of ways to make wishes, my mother-in-law still makes surprise visits…
Marriages may be made in heaven, but a lot go to hell later. Because I’m still married to husband number one, divorced girlfriends ask my advice about what they should look for in husband number two … or three…
As I get older, time goes faster. I have to try to manage it or get out of its way.
My first lesson in trying to do this came from my grandmother, who repeatedly stressed the importance of balancing work and play. When I was seven, I thought I’d figured out how…
I HATE having my picture taken! The expression "take your picture" says it all. It says something’s going to be taken and it is - my peace of mind.
It sounds like a cliche, but I’d rather go to the dentist. I would, that is, if the dentist didn’t have his own camera and didn’t x-ray my teeth…