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…

4 Ways to Change Your Life for the Better

Everybody has bad days. Everybody has horrible days. That doesn’t matter. The important thing is how you feel about your life as a whole. What can you do to make your life more worth living? 1. Get out of debt. When you’ve got no debt to pay, you have more…