Is The Lesson In Patience Ever Over?

Life is constantly trying to teach me patience - waiting for the pot to boil, the traffic light to change, the check to come in the mail and my mother-in-law to refer to me as her daughter-in-law instead of her son’s wife.

I started to learn “how to wait without tantrums” when I was a child…

Why Do Alarm Clocks Have To Be Alarming?

I’m sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t like alarm clocks. I’d love to wake up each morning looking as vibrantly refreshed as the women in Lunesta ads. I don’t. I wake up looking like I need sleeping pills instead of my morning vitamins…

What Happened To The Lazy Days Of Summer?

Because we live in a time of stressed-out multi-tasking, I think everyone deserves a little time to be lazy. Unfortunately, my conscience is hyperactive and won’t listen to me. I have to schedule time not to do anything so I don’t feel guilty about not doing anything productive…

Does Re-Gifting Make You Gifted?

To recycle or not to recycle, that is the question. No, I don’t mean aluminum, glass, paper and plastic. That’s not a question. That’s my responsibility to my littered and taken-for-granted planet.

Every day I have to dispose of packaging materials. The smaller the item is, the bigger its package is…

Was The Hula Hoop An Original Idea?

Aren’t there anymore original ideas? Now “The Simpsons” is a movie. Soon Hollywood will be making “Oceans 21″ and Spiderman will be using a walker. One “CSI” turned into three. One reality show turned into an unreal number of them…

Will Reading This Make You Lucky?

“You’re out of luck”. That’s what the salesman told me when he didn’t have my size in a shoe. I didn’t think anymore about it until I ran out of gas driving home from the mall. A few minutes later a policeman stopped to offer assistance and noticed my license tags had expired. It was true…

Still Have Growing Pains?

How do you know when you’re grown up? Is it when people stop asking you what you want to be?..

Who Put “U” In Restaurants?

Who knew that 46.4% of the average American’s food dollar is spent in restaurants? Our lives have gotten so hectic we don’t have time to defrost dinner or put something in the microwave.

I remember when going out to eat was a treat…

Why Do People Behave Like That?

Why don’t I ever see a half-empty bag of potato chips or a few peanuts left in a bowl? We must have convinced ourselves that snack food doesn’t have as many calories because we eat it with our hands. But if that’s right, maybe it applies only to right-handed people…

Is It Spelled Vacation Or Vaca-Shun?

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…