Editors are trying to destroy your life. They attack with bolts of lightning and you may not even realize it. Microsoft made a deal with the devil. MS Word installs the Editor with every copy of software. Every misspelled word, every grammatical error and every contextual faux pas invites a bolt of lightning from your unfriendly … More Your Editor may be destroying your life
Schools are failing our children. They don’t teach typing anymore. They also don’t teach spelling or real math… I learned to type on a typewriter. Yes, I know that means I am old. The typewriter, for you young’uns, is a machine about as big as a microwave. You hit the keys and the words slowly appear … More The four keys that can change your story
This is my little story about stains I like wearing stained shirts when I am having a little “me time.” Stains remind me about yesterday… and in some cases they remind me about the past several days. In a way, stains are like wearable souvenirs. Stains are also useful: They act like a memory device and they help … More My Stained Glass Shirt
Imagine if the Tooth Fairy became the Stalker Fairy. I know, because it happened to me. Do your hear it? The ringing. If you are like most of us, you occasionally hear a faint, high frequency ringing in your ear. For most people, the noise will be a little like the Tooth Fairy, fluttering by occasionally … More 16 Ways to Cope with Tinnitus (aka Ear Stalking)
Why does U2 need a remix? U2 is the best band in the world. Okay, I admit that I’m a big fan so I’m biased. It’s hard to argue with their credentials: 13 albums, 22 Grammy awards, they have used their fame to influence Presidents and Prime Ministers, and they continue to remake their sound. Impressive, creative… even … More DJ Daddy 2.0: Remix Your Life
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
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?
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
Do you know what it takes to make someone go vacant (The Hard drive is busy processing kind of vacant…)? All you have to do is ask them “Can you tell me what your strengths are?” Then watch. I give you permission to try it as an experiment. “Uh…” is usually the response. Interestingly, “Uh” is a … More Positive Psychology: 5 Ways to Understand Your Strengths
A life well lived is the best recovery program.
Getting High on Recovery 