trying to un-break an egg

We watched Puss in Boots the other day.  In case you are unfamiliar with the movie, Puss is a cat (who wears boots, hence the name) and apparently he was raised in an orphanage with his buddy, Humpty Alexander Dumpty. And to answer an eggcellent question from one of my kids: No, Shrek is not […]

a little guilt’s good for you, but this is ridiculous

Ah, here is one that I’ll be working on for a while. Forever, maybe. The Big One: Guilt. The Dalai Lama says this: ‘Guilt, as experienced in Western culture, is connected with hopelessness and discouragement and is past-oriented. Genuine remorse, however, is a healthy state of mind – it is future-oriented, connected with hope, and […]

Is it a destiny, a destiny?

This is a little slice of my childhood. I bought the album, ‘Get the Knack,’ on 8-track from the bargin bin at Target. (I’ll wait here if you want to google that, or ask your parents, or whatever). It had the classic, My Sharona, along with another of my faves, Good Girls Don’t (we always […]