26 Aug
The news is stressing everyone out.
Anxiety, depression, and despair are consuming many, BUT –
Not all of the headlines are apocalyptic. Some are merely strange and disturbing.
4 Aug
Let’s make a money mountain out of an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny mole!
“Holy Moly!”
I notice a new? mole on my neck.
Being hyper vigilant (and vain) I hop online and compare my mole to images of other moles.
(BTW it is disturbing how many pics of moles are posted on the web. Way too much sharing!) […]
7 Jul
Life is sweet. And what’s more fun than a blood sugar crash at 3:00 a.m.?
10 Jun
An Excerpt from the humor book The Misery Manifesto
In the United States, as in most of the sad world, you have weather. You have a variety of weather patterns and temperature changes, as well as four seasons. This isn’t the case in coastal Southern California. As you know, we’re special.
In Los Angeles, we have consistently perfect weather — sunny with temperatures in the seventies. It’s a truly reasonable climate that only the most miserable among us (usually transplanted New Yorkers) find unacceptable. These are the cranks who complain about unending sunshine and clear skies as if it’s a bad thing. “I miss the seasons,” they whine.
However, even for the easy to please, there is an ugly shoofly in The Endless Summer of SoCal . . . and that is the infamous “June Gloom.”
According to Wikipedia (who else?), June Gloom is “a weather pattern that results in cloudy, overcast skies with cool temperatures during the late spring and early summer, most commonly in the month of June.” (This is why it’s not called February Gloom.)
“Low-altitude stratus clouds are formed over the ocean, then transported over the coastal regions by the wind.”
Translation: June Gloom is a month-long period of fog and drizzle up the yahoo where you feel like an abuse victim in a never-ending Bergman movie. I call it “50 Shades of L.A. Gray.”
June Gloom should be a bona fide mental disorder ordained by the American Psychiatric Association. It’s Los Angeles’s version of a seasonal affective disorder.
14 Apr
Whoopee.
It has stopped snowing.
Whoopee.
The flowers are blossoming with a vengeance. […]
30 Mar
“Every bad or good thing can be turned into something funny.”
– Daniel (student)
Educator, author, and Certified Laughter Leader Sue Stephenson believes in the power of laughter.
Seriously! She is helping students find their inner comedian. She is bringing fun to the classroom. She is using comedy in schools to promote literacy, well being, and mental health.
is the innovative school program using stand-up comedy that former principal Sue created and co-developed with comedians Kyle Woolven and Marc Hallworth […]
17 Feb
So much email, so many phone calls, too many texts… too little time.
Hello! It’s challenging to muster the same sense of urgency to email, call, text responses than I have for, say, attending a family funeral or watching The Tennis Channel.
I know you understand ’cause you haven’t returned my emails, calls, texts either 🙂 […]
2 Feb
Run-of-the-mill pain, angst, misery – it’s all relative.
One poor schlub’s kidney stone is someone else’s stubbed toe.
Many people claim to be miserable. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you hurt?
Universal Pain Assessment Tool
Seriously: You don’t have to be totally free of pain to be 🙂 […]
19 Jan
If you’re a proud slacker, you are most likely just now getting around to giving some (but not too much) thought to the dreaded New Year’s Goals and Resolutions.
I can help with this endeavor.
Advice – you know you love it!
http://www.aath.org
