A Perfectionist Endeavor
Posted in Community, Family, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 17th, 2008
We were not the only children in the world who failed to play with our pets as much as we should have. Enchanted by dreams of fur and fluff, we begged to be given a rabbit or puppy or chick, but the realities of caring for a pet every day were not quite as [...]
Posted in Beauty, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 16th, 2008
Even if we have big, ugly feet, it is good practice to cut off our ugly big toe to fit into the dainty glass slipper. If we fail to do this, we risk losing the prince (who will not consider marrying any but the most beautiful, servile girl with the smallest feet) and missing [...]
If we really loved our neighbors, the neighborhood would inevitably turn into one big cult, and sooner or later the FBI would have to raid it. Be careful what you wish for!
Personally I have no intention of loving my neighbors, or even meeting them. First you say hello at the mailbox, and [...]
Posted in Community, Family, General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 14th, 2008
You may wonder what I can possibly mean when I say that watching television is something we should do better. How can we do it better, you may ask, when it is surely the least demanding of our leisure pursuits? This warning is addressed not to those in the majority who are already avid viewers [...]
Our children are the feather in our cap, the jewel in our crown—but how can they reflect well on us when they are running as wild as a young woolly mammoth, newly thawed after a thousand years of forced idleness in the Siberian tundra?
We do our best. We play them Mozart in [...]
Posted in Beauty, Community, General, Spirituality on Apr 12th, 2008
When was the last time you saw a Stunningly Beautiful person? Probably not today, probably not yesterday, probably not last week. If you live in certain states, chances are you’ve never seen a Stunningly Beautiful person in your whole life. But judging from the behavior of millions of Americans, who follow the every move of [...]
This one is a perfectionist tip for my mother, but maybe you too know somebody who forgets where they parked. When my mother drives to the mall, I assume she will be the one to remember where we parked. Foolish assumption on my part! How many hours have we spent wandering around the mall [...]
Posted in General, Politics, Spirituality on Apr 10th, 2008
Even if you’re not religious, it will upset the governments of the world if we all be more like Jesus, and that can’t be a bad thing, can it?
When six billion of us have taken Jesus as our model, given away our wealth and overhauled our lives to prepare [...]
Posted in General, Personal Hygiene on Apr 9th, 2008
I don’t enjoy it either. I would rather go straight to bed. What IS that stuff on the floss? All I know is that it must be full of nasty bacteria. Did you know that some people don’t wash their hands after they floss? They have that nasty bacterial gunk all over their fingers, [...]