How to Be an Unfavored Child

Parents are supposed to favor all their children, but we all know how that goes. Parents are human, and some of their kids are going to get a better kind of attention than others. How […]
Parents are supposed to favor all their children, but we all know how that goes. Parents are human, and some of their kids are going to get a better kind of attention than others. How […]
I hate to do laundry. Laundry is worse than scrubbing the toilet, cleaning the cat’s litter box, and mopping the floor with a toothbrush, among the world’s most distasteful tasks. I’d rather be tied to […]
Living with a cat is a battle of wits. This is true of any cat. All cats are smart, but some are kitty geniuses. One of those is the cat who lives with me, Harmony. […]
There comes a time in the life of every overweight or diabetic person when we have to face the Big D: dieting. To satisfy that craving for something sweet, we find ourselves turning to healthy […]
Computer games are the detours in the highway of life. They are a pleasant way to waste your life while avoiding any of the more productive activities. There is always the excuse that they sharpen […]
Medicine commercials are funny. They aren’t supposed to be funny, but they are. They almost always start in a bucolic-looking setting, with happy, smiling, healthy-looking people doing fun things. The voice-over announcer mentions the name […]
It isn’t easy being stuck at home most of the day. Unfortunately, during the current pandemic, that is precisely what many of us have been forced to do. We can only hope that we are […]
Eric Yuan is a benefactor of the human race. Who is Eric Yuan, you ask? He is the inventor of the videoconferencing software app that we all know and love as Zoom. Where would we […]
Those who read the first installment in my instruction series on avoiding housework already know that I have a love-hate relationship with chores, mostly hate. My first chapter had to do with avoiding cleaning the […]
I have a simple relationship with housework. I don’t like it and it doesn’t like me. Take my floor, for instance. When I look at it (which I try not to do any more than […]