Hamsters Can Now Help Halt Identity Theft

The invention of a hamster-powered paper shredder seems a pretty harmless attempt to harness a bit of pet power to do our daily chores…

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…

Weight Gain And The Summer Dilemma

Weight and the weather have one thing in common -inconsistency. I’ve yet to find anyone who is content with either…

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…

Money Grown on Trees

We’ve all been told a hundred times or more that money doesn’t grow on trees…

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…