If you are a minor and living at home and your parent asks you where you’re going and with whom, you are required to answer the questions. But if you are not living under their roof, or if you are still living at home, but you are contributing an equal share of the expenses of the house, then you are not required to answering anything that infringes on your privacy. No one else has the right to question your comings …
I’ve never met a person who didn’t have an idea for an invention or a story waiting to be told. You may tell yourself that you’ve never had one but think about all the things you think about, all the things you complain about or think about how you would improve upon any given situation. And there you have it. Those are the seeds that I’m talking about. Those ideas that germinate in your mind while you are standing in …
No matter how little money you have, you might be surprised to discover that you have some in places you would never think to look. How many times have you gone to the store and put the change into your pocket or pocketbook, and forgotten that it was there? Over the years I have heard numerous stories like that. One woman was always finding bills and coins in the oddest places. When I asked her why she didn’t remember having …
We tend to think of women in this country as having all kinds of educational opportunities and all kinds of career opportunities. But is this really true? The majority of women have jobs; a small percentage of women have flourishing careers. It’s not necessarily that women don’t want more, that they don’t want brilliant careers, it’s more that they don’t know how to achieve those goals. They don’t know how to take those first baby steps. There are certainly …
Until Facebook came on the scene I had always heard that some people could be friendly or unfriendly, and these are adjectives, unless used by the military, in which case, it could be used as a noun. You can have a friend, and that is a noun, but in all my years, I had never heard the word, “unfriend” which is now being classified as a verb. It took Facebook to get this neologism into the dictionary and the definition …
For most of my life, it was a well-known rule that if a woman was unattached she either found other women to hang out with or she joined an organization like Parents Without Partners or a religious group. But one thing she did not do was go to an event by herself. Times have changed. Nowadays, you see single women going to parties by themselves, going to singles bars, restaurants, concerts, theaters, weddings, and just about anything by themselves. And …
I love to hear success stories. Anybody’s success story. It doesn’t have to be mine for me to enjoy listening to it. It may sound a little bizarre until you understand the theory behind it. Actually, there are a couple of theories behind it. I had once read that anything that happens once can happen an infinite number of times. This gave me hope that some of the things that I had hit upon by accident and couldn’t figure out …
I just saw the cutest video of a little girl crying her eyes out because she wanted a real live unicorn. Her mother kept saying that she would like to give her one but she couldn’t find one. And she kept asking her daughter if she was just tired, and each time her daughter would cry and sob and beg her for a real live unicorn. Within minutes of watching that video, there was a link to another video on …
A prominent cardiologist and the foremost figure in the field of wireless medicine believes the future of health lies in our own hands, namely in our smart phones and other portable electronic devices. He said that the smart phone will be the hub of the future of medicine and it will be your health-medical dashboard. By snapping an AliveCor device, a portable Heart Monitor that sells for $199.00, onto an iPhone, a cardiogram can be performed in an airplane at …
It’s amazing, and sad, that in this day and age when there are so many sugar and fat substitutes on the market, that a bakery has to cheat the public and put them at risk by unlawfully misbranding products. “Federal authorities shut down a New Jersey bakery after finding sugar in its ‘sugar free’ goods and saturated fat in its ‘fat free’ treats,” the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. The bakery was accused of unlawfully misbranding products as …