Posts by Pat:
Questions that haunt me…
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren’t they just stale bread to begin with?
Why is it that when someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe you believe them, but if they tell there is wet paint you have to touch it to check?
What hair color do they put on the driver’s licenses of bald men?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?
Why do banks charge a fee due to insufficient funds, when they already know you’re broke?
So…I’ve looked at my three friends…
Yep, it must be me!
And how about you?
Paws with perspective…
Murphy the Dog shares some delightful thoughts in his monthly column Murphy’s Dogma in the Science of Mind Magazine. I think you will enjoy this one! (And maybe see a lesson in it to be learned?) I have had some long talks with birds. All of them seem glad to have wings and beaks, and […]
Choosing can be hard
One of the most confusing issues we face today is choice. We want choice, but choice can be more difficult than we think, because it works on a simple principle. And the principle runs like this: In order to choose something we have to eliminate everything else. This means that if we have 20 ice-cream […]
Have to or…get to?
Every day you “have to” wake up, maybe you have to get dressed, have to go to work, and have to do a bunch of other things. What if you did not “have to” do any of it? There is one word that can change the whole way you think, act and live your life! […]
It’s a noisy world…
We live in a crazy and noisy world. Every time we get in the car, we turn on the radio or CD. When we are home, we watch TV or get on the computer. The traffic going by on the street seems louder than ever. We live in a sensory overloaded world. When we are […]
Ben Franklin’s Wisdom
Benjamin Franklin was a pretty amazing guy, the quintessential Renaissance Man: scientist, inventor, author, musician, scholar, business man and politician. (Bifocals, anyone?) There’s one story from his life in particular that demonstrates his astute understand of human behavior. This story became so well-known it became known as The Benjamin Franklin Effect and was even cited […]
Like riding a bike..?
People talk about bike riding when they want to remind us that some things, once learned, are not forgotten. What they don’t mention is how we learned. No one learns to ride a bike from a book, or even a video. We learn it by doing it. Actually by not doing it. We learn by […]
Why do we worry?
The reason we worry so much is that we’ve got an amazing imagination. It’s capable of creating the most elaborate, detailed worlds that haven’t happened yet. It may just happen to be focused on the negative right now. What if today we stopped beating ourselves up for being so stressed out and instead admitted, “I […]
It’s all about you…
I saw a story online about Delta Air Lines and effective communication. This last month, Delta sent an email from its CEO, Ed Bastian, to millions of its most loyal passengers. It was an effective email and one of its secrets was the way it repeated a singe word, over and over. In the course […]
My new word is…
…contronym! It’s a new word to me, even though I was an English teacher in a previous life! A contronym is a word that can be its own opposite! In German, contronyms are called Janus words, named after the two-faced God of duality, Janus, in Roman mythology. So…you know synonyms are words that share the […]