24th April 2008
What Stresses You? Part 1
Stress is one of the biggest problems of the modern day. Rather than talking about how stress causes all kinds of diseases and creates a hell in life, let us find out how to analyze our stressors. After that we can probably d...
24th April 2008
Making Choices to Be Happy-2
Many times we are happy when we are around people who are positive and happy themselves. Those kinds of people were not born with a different set of values or even an obvious funny bone. Somehow they have learned to e...
24th April 2008
Making Choices to Be Happy-1
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
-Thornton Wilder
Life gives us many things on our plate. Some of us are plain lucky while others miss many ...
24th April 2008
Forced Into Marriage – Part 2
In part one of this article, we discussed about how some marriages are forced because of circumstances and what chances are there for their survial. With a full time job and working to support a new family, he found t...
24th April 2008
Forced Into Marriage – Part1
Have you ever found yourself in a relationship and then wondered how and why you got into it? There are many types of relationships and each kind is built upon a different set of ideas. For example, I have been marri...
24th April 2008
Collections Become Clutter-2
The scattered items that have been collected includes everything that has caught my eye when I was in different stores, touched my sentimental journey of my family and children’s past and been collected but is now mix...
24th April 2008
Collections Become Clutter- 1
I am making a study of clutter in homes. In this connection I had a very interesting talk with my neighbor. She had lot to say about how collections become clutter. Th following is the summary of all she told me.
I ha...
16th April 2008
How to Start A Compost?
Composting is difficult. The wonderful truth is you couldn't stop stuff from decomposing if you tried.
A good compost bin or pile will decompose items quickly. A poor one will still decompose items, but slowly. Consider you...
16th April 2008
How Do I Treat A Cast Iron Skillet?
FACTORY NEW: Cast iron pans fresh from the factory usually are treated with a coating to prevent them from rusting before they sell. This coating is not good to eat and it may contain plastic or wax, so it’s a goo...
16th April 2008
How Can I Start My Life Completely Over?
Life sometimes surprises us with a lot of change. After a divorce, the death of someone near to us, the loss of a job, or financial trouble, we may find that our lives are getting a complete redesign whether w...
16th April 2008
How Can I Improve My Study Habits?
The best foundation for good grades is to schedule regular study time five or six days a week, and to use that time for school whether you have a specific assignment due or not.
For high school a good rule of th...
11th April 2008
If Every Couple Had Only One Child, Would Global Warming Cease to Be a Problem?
No. It would help the earth a lot to lower the population, but the problem of global warming is complex. Even if there were suddenly no people on earth, global warming wou...
11th April 2008
My Room Is A Mess, Where Do I Even Begin to Start Organizing It?
College student? Teenager? Living in one room? Rooms can get very messy when you do so much living in one room, and when it’s messy it can be nearly impossible to find anything and jus...
11th April 2008
Does Eating Healthy Have to Be So Expensive?
With the cost of food rising, it’s hard not to notice that some of the healthier choices we can make with food, cost more than their unhealthy counterparts. Organic foods cost more than inorganic. Lean me...
11th April 2008
Do You Feel Like Your Only Friends Are On The Computer?
Do you go to work and have your "public face" but then come home to an empty place? Do you find the only friends you have are on the computer? Do you feel lonely and wish you could change that?
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