Are We Acting Our Age?

As baby boomers lose their boom, anti-aging is becoming big business. Baby boomers were born during the post WWII years of 1946 to 1966. Now, as baby boomers slow down, they’re speeding up their search for the fountain of youth. We all want to look younger. We try skin products, treatments and surgeries; but eventually we look in the mirror and realize that the fountain of youth is really a wishing well. Pharmaceutical companies sell youth in bottles, jars and tubes. Proctor & Gamble,... Read more »

Baby Clothes Louder Than The Baby

What is it with people making a mockery of their kids these days? Anything that makes them look ridiculous, from the funny baby t-shirts to the weird haircuts and plain silly names, anything that draws attention to their child will suffice. Even if others are laughing at them rather than with them, they don’t mind. Apparently all publicity is good publicity. Whatever happened to babies being clean and tidy to be taken out in public? What’s wrong with these old fashioned ideas? Why do... Read more »

Do We Put The Lax In Relaxation?

How relaxed would you like to be? I’d like to be so relaxed I could be in the same room with a spider without it freaking me out. Although my husband has repeatedly suggested I try aversion therapy, allowing spiders to crawl on me sounds like a “Survivor” episode I wouldn’t survive. My husband also tries reminding me that spiders are God’s creatures too. Then I remind him that female spiders eat their mates. Learning to relax takes practice. Whenever I get ready to... Read more »

Laughing Out Loud Online - The Key To Finding Hilarity In A Boring World

Let’s face it. We all love the Internet and its wealth of quick knowledge and information but it has also caused us all our fair share of misery. Viruses have destroyed our hard drives, financial and sexual predators lay lurking in the shadows and everything else that could possibly be unpleasant is never more than a click of the mouse away. So in order to not let the world of fast information get you down, it is important to stay in touch with your sense of humor, especially when you are... Read more »

Is Twitter For Twits?

I hear it all the time. The people on twitter are twits, twittering tales of hairballs and haircuts. Bloggers have been moaning about the noise on twitter, and predicting the date the site will close down, yet twitter remains a powerful communications force in the online world. I think it has something to do with that thing they call API…the stuff programmers use to talk to twitter and make other tools that use twitter information for something else. I didn’t really understand what... Read more »

Did You Play Rich Man, Poor Man?

“Rich Man, Poor Man” was a game I played as a child. The first button on my clothes was rich man - the second was poor man. Buttons three through eleven were beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor. My last button foretold who I would marry. The game hasn’t changed, but my definition of husband material has. As a child I thought a millionaire was a rich man. I didn’t know about taxes and income brackets. Now I think a rich man is one... Read more »

Is It Later Than You Think?

With Daylight Saving Time it can be an hour earlier or later than you think - unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii, where they don’t fool with Mother Nature. Congress, of course, can’t resist fooling with her and has repeatedly changed the dates on which Daylight Saving Time begins and ends. As a law-abiding citizen, I sprang ahead an hour on my bedside clock. Who knew my new clock did that automatically. As a result, I woke up two hours ahead - and it’s not good to fool with this... Read more »

How Well Do You Know Your Inner Child?

The term “inner child” applies to our emotional body. Psychologist Carl Jung called it the “divine child”, spiritual leader Emmet Fox called it the “wonder child” and I call it my reason for not having to act grownup all the time. We all have an inner child; we just talk about it differently. Pablo Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up”. Dr. Seuss said, “Adults are obsolete children”... Read more »

The Advantages Of Chauffeur Car Hire

There are many activities to be indulged in to avoid the boredom that comes from driving but few of them are legal and most require that you remove at least one hand from the wheel with the possible implications of being stopped for careless driving. If you have to travel but are easily bored, try using chauffeur car hire to get around and then indulge yourself in all sorts of fun. Dancing is one possibility. Many a time, my daughter and I have made up our own version of the hand jive whilst driving... Read more »

Do We Suffer From 1st World Problems?

Sometimes Americans can have too much of a good thing - like artificial sweeteners. Pink packets of Sweet & Low turned iced tea into my drink of choice. Sweet & Low, however, contains saccharin, which can have a bitter taste, which opened the market to Equal in 1965. The blue packets of Equal contain aspartame, which caused a health scare, which opened the market to Splenda’s yellow packets in 1999. In the $1.5 billion business of artificial sweeteners, Splenda outsells Equal, which... Read more »