“A little free advice: The best advice is never free” I am on a quest. My quest is to become wise. It’s probably not something I will put on my resume or tell all of my friends about. If you talk about wisdom, people think you want to grow your beard and wear sackcloth. … More Wisdom and your Innernet
Shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. Ann Lamott What is your best mistake? When I was 18, I took a volunteer job as a camp counsellor for a week: First mistake. To prepare, I packed my own suitcase: Mistake … More Mental Health: How to Stop Recycling Your Mistakes
Laughter is the sound of crashing brain cells. When we laugh with other people, there is a real reason that we look each other in the eye: Our brains are working together, brain cells are dancing and we are having a good time. Humor can change parts of you, and you’ve got to do some things. … More Humor+Usness: Humorousness can Change Parts of You
Monday. The most hated day of the week; it’s about as popular as taxes and flossing your teeth. The Boomtown Rats wrote #1 song about how they don’t like Mondays. I guess they like Mondays more now that they have sold a bunch of records? Why do we have such a hate on for Monday? 1. … More Don’t Hate Mondays, Hug Them!
I am thinking about sending my children to live with the Circus. My children are at the age when they need to change schools and move up to the next level in their Education. In Canada, we name it Junior High and High School. Whoever named the levels of schooling needs to go back to … More The 10 Ways that Living With The Circus Is Better Than Going to Traditional School
It would suck to make 6.5 million dollars. I think I would have to quit my job in order to spend all of that money. Especially if I made that much every year. Controversial NFL player Marshawn Lynch made 6.5 million dollars last year and he acts like an entitled overpaid athlete, snubbing his fans, … More What I learned about myself from watching Marshawn Lynch
Have you ever been in an experiment? I regularly experiment on the people around me, including my children. You can read about all the fun in my most excellent post, “The 8 Words That Can Keep Any Conversation Going.” Is it possible that life is some sort of experiment? In a scientific experiment, there are … More Do you AdMIT that Life is an Experiment?
How is it that when you and I were 7, being grounded was the worst thing in the world… and now that we are adults, being grounded is something we long for? What do you fear? What brings out your inner chicken? I am afraid of heights. I am a chicken, a man-fairy when it … More The Downside of Being Grounded
Semicolon – A punctuation mark (;) used to join two independent clauses in a sentence. The semicolon shows that the ideas in the two clauses are related: “Jack really didn’t mind being left without a car; he had the house to himself.” “The semicolon is like a marriage counsellor, trying to unify two partners who prefer … More The daily semicolon: The rest of your story
Are you a leader or a follower? I hate that question for a number of reasons. I hate it because it is an either/or question: You either lead, or you follow. Every leader is also a follower and every follower is often also a leader. Second, I dislike the question because it assumes that leading and … More Are you a Leader or are you an Oreo Cookie?
Getting High on Recovery 