What Stresses You? Part 3 In earlier parts of, What Stresses You, we saw what many people say are two of the main stresses in their lives. Now we are going to look at some of the other stressors. Money is a very big stressor for young married people...

What Stresses You? Part 2 One thing that you can’t do anything about is the relationship you have with your parents and family, but you can try to keep the stress as little as possible. Don’t try to have a storybook or television family because t...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...