Integrity is what you do when nobody is looking. Do you cheat at solitaire, steal from an untended garage sale, or keep something a store forgets to charge you for? If so, integrity may not be your strongest trait. Similarly, if you let the actions of others dictate your behavior, you may be integrity…
Life
Time vs Money
In this corner, weighing in at the only thing you have in this life that you can’t possibly get more of: Time! And in this corner, weighing in at the thing people think they need to be happy: Money! Keep it clean. No biting, scratching or hitting your opponents with a chair unless my back…
The Virtues of Preparation
The first day of school caught me by surprise yesterday. I knew it was coming, and we had almost all of the stuff we need in the brat’s backpack, but we weren’t ready for it. Yesterday morning, we woke up. Brat #3 was uncooperative, to say the least, so I wasn’t playing my ‘A’ game….
The Happy Butt
Do you find the cloud in every silver lining? Is the glass not only half empty, but evaporating? Do you start every day thinking about how the effects of entropy on the universe make everything you do ultimately pointless? You may be a pessimist. Pessimism gets a bad rap. Without pessimists, we wouldn’t…
