The UPS driver doesn’t only know every purchase you have made in the last year, from a list immediately downloadable by any driver, he knows who was home to sign for it, AND whether or not your pet is a good dog. YES! There is a BAD DOG LIST. Anyone who wanted could put together…
The same suggestions show up on lists of what makes people happy. There is a sense that if only I won Powerball, I’d be happy forever. A Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study published in 1978 debunks that. The study compared the happiness level of lottery winners with non-winners and with people who had suffered a…
Yes! I know every shape and form of poison ivy and its cousins, poison oak and poison sumac and would not venture within 10 feet of any of it. So how can I get it, despite my avoidance of the plants? Here are a few possible ways: 1. My dog! Yes, my sometimes-wonderful pet is…
“Wind’s in the East The Fog is rolling in Like something is brewing, About to begin . . .” This bit of a song, from the Overture of The MARY POPPINS Movie written by Robert and Richard Sherman, and played throughout the SAVING MR. BANKS movie, has somehow always sparked my imagination. The scene it creates…
My spirituality group is on summer break. So, this seemed like an opportune time to launch a writing accountability group, an idea that arose after our group spent four weeks writing and reading This I Believe essays. When people make a commitment, like wedding vows or giving testimony in court, a public pronouncement carries a heavier weight than just thinking…
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