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301: Is It Advertising Or Adverteasing
Whatever happened to truth in advertising? I live in Los Angeles, where what you see isn't necessarily what you get. Face lifts, breast implants, liposuction - we're walking billboards for plastic surgery.
I often walk past an apartment complex named Ocean Heaven. It sounds heavenly, but it's three blocks from the ocean.
Downtown there's a
302: Is It Coincidence Marriage Contains The Words I Age
A funny thing happened on the way through our marriage. John and I have reached a state of contentedly happy companionship. The excitement of new love has matured.
When we were newlyweds, I didn't make dinner until John got home. A few years later life and children got in the way and I kept his dinner warm. Now if John comes home late, his dinn
303: Is It Really As Good For The Gander
When I got married, I got a life partner. My husband got a housekeeper and a cook. He also got a laundress and a social secretary. After we had children he got a nanny to take care of them - a nanny who didn't get days off. This explains why men remarry sooner after divorce. Unfortunately, second marriages are statistically less successful than fir
304: Is It The Economy Stupid
According to a poll co-conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, 50% of workers in this economy go to work sick. This is attributed to not having paid sick leave and employer pressure to be on the job. Although federal legislation has been proposed, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. are already requiri
305: Is It Time For Change
In 1845 Congress decided Tuesday would be the most convenient day of the week for Americans to vote and it hasn't changed. Of course, in 1845 we were an agrarian society that traveled by horse and buggy. Farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote and a day to get home - without interfering with Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which
306: Is It To Die For
My grandmother didn't understand why people described things as "to die for". She thought something really liked should be something "to live for" - like chocolate.
Chocolate is a socially acceptable addiction. It's a multi-sensory addiction that appeals to taste, smell and touch. Because it also releases chemicals similar to those released whe
307: Is Life A Party Waiting To Happen
Parties are meant to be fun; but when I open an invitation, I hear my grandmother saying, "Every invitation accepted is a party promised". It's hard to open an invitation with my fingers crossed.
What do I wear when the invitation says "casual chic"? That's an invitation to Judgment Day. No matter what I wear, there'll be an invisible sign acro
308: Is Progress Our Most Important Product
Okay. I admit it. I'm electronically challenged. I have trouble using an electric can opener, an electric pencil sharpener - even an electric toothbrush.
My husband, on the other hand - the hand holding a fistful of extension cords - loves electronic gadgets. It's a guy thing, which I'm sure Freud would have said related somehow to a man's rela
309: Is Running Late Exercise
I don't like the word late. I'd much rather be called tardy. It sounds less thoughtless, less selfish, less all about me.
For me it's all about wanting to finish A before starting B so I can get to C. I'm so determined to get things done I lose track of time. When I look for it, it's gone.
As a child I laughed at the White Rabbit as he ran
310: Is Saying Please Inspirational Motivation
Little things mean a lot - that's inspirational motivation. When I was a little girl, I was afraid of the dark. My grandmother told me sunset was Mother Nature's way to say goodnight. That was inspirational motivation for me to be brave about going to bed. Unfortunately, when Daylight Saving Time came, it stopped working. Mother Nature got to stay
311: Is Self-Therapy Theraputic
If you live in Southern California and you're not in therapy, you just haven't realized you have problems. I'm in therapy - self-therapy. Appointments always coincide with my schedule, I can afford it and I have a variety of different therapies to offer myself.
There's the newspaper therapy. I count the number of obituaries and realize being ov
312: Is Slang A Four-Letter Word
For my grandmother slang was a four-letter word. She didn't want slang in the dictionary because she thought it infected our language.
"He goes", "she goes", "they go"; but no one goes anywhere. Because enough people used the word goes incorrectly for a long enough period of time, the goes that means says goes into Webster's Dictionary - and th
313: Is The Used Car Dealer Next In Line For A Jeremy Kyle Style Grilling
Switch on the TV, open the paper, surf the internet and all that greets you are messages of doom and gloom about the economy. If reports are to be believed we are all about to be trampled to death in horrific scenes that represent a mini Armageddon when we are all so desperately poor that it takes a week's wages to purchase a loaf of bread and sell
314: Is There A Model For Remodeling
Remodeling, otherwise known as home improvement, doesn't improve marriages. I know. I just survived a year of remodeling that should have taken six months. Yes, it cost more than we'd expected. We'd expected that, but it cost even more than that.
For me it's less painful to pay more for things that show than things like pipes and wiring hidden
315: Is There A Recipe For Making Money
Because of the importance of money, many people frame the first dollar they earned. I didn't. Because I earned my first dollar selling lemonade, I would have had to frame four quarters. Nevertheless, because I believe it's never too late, I framed my first earnings notification from Google. For selling ads on my blog I was notified I'd earned two c
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