I feel sorry for all the little starving kids in Africa; I see them on TV and thank god I’m not them. Sometimes I even get the urge to give money to a charity for their benefit, but I don’t because it’s a waste (throwing money into some rich guy’s pocket isn’t my idea [...]
Getting the check at a restaurant is a ritualistic dance people do to either pay the bill or get out of paying the bill. I’ve played both parts in that act; there have been times that I genuinely want to pay the bill because I’m the most capable, and there have been other times [...]
Most people who read this blog with frequency know that I have a bunny for a pet. His name is Mr. B, and he’s a part of our family, not an outdoor ignored rabbit. I know a little bit about bunnies, and I can say that they are, unfortunately, not treated with the same [...]
That’s just what my boy did today. I don’t know the details, all I know is that his mother asked him to do something, and he turned and said “I don’t need to do what you say, Butt-Face!” Mely came to me and said something like “Have a talk with your son because he [...]
Sometimes you just want to sit and do nothing. Watching TV seems like a pretty great idea; you’ll get to sit on the couch, perhaps have some ice cream, zone out for a while and otherwise decompress. That’s fine. There’s no problem with relaxing as a means to not doing. Television though isn’t a [...]
We live in an anal expulsive society that rewards the outlandish and bold. People who are loud, dominant and sometimes narcissistic are deemed normal, healthy and even enviable while deep thinking, reserved and sensitive people are slapped with a medical condition, Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). I’m the parent of one of each of these personality [...]
Into every life a little rain must fall. It happened to Neil (the older of my two) yesterday. My youngest son, Alan, got invited by his friend to a birthday party, and we dutifully showed up. Neil, in the mean time, went to the park with his mother to play. I found out how [...]
There are times that blog posts are written with longevity in mind, not the effect of an instant reaction. This is one of those posts. A family friend, Rick Sain, died last week after a brief one month fight with pancreatic cancer. I didn’t know him very well; I remember him vaguely from years ago. [...]
According to some interesting new research, not all fat is the same, and there is a well documented connection between fat and stress (Except in Buddha’s case). Elissa Epel, of the Health Psychology Department at the University of California at San Francisco has been studying the effect of stress and hormone imbalances as they relate to [...]
Kids don’t behave like we think they should. Parents know kids are crazy and behave irrationally. There’s nothing abnormal about that; children testing limits and trying our patience isn’t a problem, it’s growth. Some of what we perceive as bad behavior is just experimentation on their part; it’s not wrong and it’s not bad. [...]
A guest post by Dennis Yu “So what can we do about it?” Use those 7 magic words whenever you hear unproductive complaining. A little complaining here and there is not such a bad thing as it can be a nice way to vent when you really need to blow off steam. [...]
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