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#7 Love Our Neighbors

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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#5 Have More Perfect Children

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 [...]

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#3 Remember Where We Parked

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 [...]

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