Live while you are alive
There is quite a serious movement in Sardinia to get the Italian government to sell the island to Switzerland. Why? because the Sardinians think that rule from Rome is a disaster, and that the infamous Italian bureaucracy is stifling life and keeping the island in the 19th Century. A poll in Switzerland shows that 93% …
“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it”. (Buddy Hackett) How often have you heard little children whining, “I don’t like “bits” in orange juice”, or “I don’t like cabbage/onions/ blueberries” etc. etc? Fill in the blanks. Ad infinitum. I know one person who apparently ate only Heinz …
A subscriber to the Georgetown Forum, a Washington DC website, is offering “Toddler Conversion” kits. The editor of this blog is not entirely sure how these work, but he is nonetheless hailing this invention as one of the greatest breakthroughs in the last two hundred years. The idea has to be this: in minutes you …
Let go of things that repeatedly disappoint or upset you, drain your energy, keep you awake at night, bringing neither reward or joy. Some people are born disagreeable, without the capacity for love, caring or particular empathy. We have all met them – the people who are always trying to score points, get one up …
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough”. Mae West Mae West was an Epicurean, even if she never knew it. To do it right you have to seize every moment, make the most of it, have friends, go out and about, travel, enjoy yourself, learn as much as you …
