Which came first, the ear canal or the Erie Canal? Obviously the anatomical channel we now call the ear canal came first, but before the Erie Canal, did we call the ear canal the ear canal? Or something else, like the Hearing Tunnel? I mean, the human body only has one or two “canals”: the [...]
The worst word I know of is the “F” word. That’s right: FEAR. What do we fear? Some people fear spiders, some fear public speaking. But most people all share one fear, and that is the fear of success. You might be thinking, “What? No. What we fear is FAILURE.” Perhaps we fear that too, [...]
One of my personal bodily functions has kept me perplexed: my left armpit takes on quite a sweaty smell while my right one always smells fabulous! Now I have several theories as to why this is. Perhaps the sweat-eating bacteria has only colonized my left armpit, and thus excreting their smelly excrement only on that [...]
What gives, NetFlix? First you double your price, then you only put crappy movies on your servers. It would really make my nights if the following movies were added to Netflix Instant Queue: National Velvet International Velvet The Sound of Music Every single season of Little House on the Prairie The Waltons Pollyanna The Compass [...]
When I was 12 or 13 and just starting to sprout new hairs, my friend Gizzie was over swimming in our pool. “Oops!” she said, adjusting the crotch of her one-piece swimsuit, “gotta tuck the pubes in!” Now I had no idea someone our age had enough pubes to stick out of a swimsuit, never [...]
Now I’m not talking Hershey’s Squirts, I mean purely gaseous farts that leave no visible trace: What happens to them? It makes me think back to medieval times, where everyone smelled horribly but no one knew it because they were so used to the smell. Are people from the future going to suck farts into [...]
My friend and client Karen Klein gave me candles from her candle company. With scents like “Wild Peony Lotus Flower”, “Millefiore Honey Aromatic Tea”, and “Old World Tulip Italian Bergamot”, these super-high quality paraffin candles have inspired wonderment in my household. However, the question remains: Where does the wax go? I know it’s burned down [...]
I have found that if you live an earnest existence, people will treat you well. I stopped by a plant nursery last week and was drawn to the pond display. The owner, a burly, unsmiling, gruff man, saw how excited I was to meet his koi, and my enthusiasm must have gotten to him because [...]
In the past ten years, I’ve suffered three bouts of depression. It seems to have been pretty seasonal, and I got pretty freaking low. Think divorce, breakups, scarring self-mutilation, meds, just horrible feelings of worthlessness I thought would never end. Might have been Seasonal Affective Disorder, but might have just been regular old depression. It [...]
Felt like buying some stocks tonight. First info market I hit was my all-time favorite place to pick up trading tips, Minyanville. After reading today’s Tech Stocks, I scrolled down through the featured stocks, they probably got enough buyers pushing the price up already, decided to scout some gems in the small print below. I [...]
