Month: September 2005

  • Hello! Welcome to the Psychiatric Hot Line

    If you are Obsessive-Compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.If you are Co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.If you have Multiple Personalities, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.If you are Paranoid, we know who you are.  Stay on the line so we can trace your call.If you are Delusional, press 7, and your call will…

  • State Fair

    Daniel and I spent the first of September at the “Great Minnesota Get-together.”  I had a Pronto Pup (Corn Dog) for my fried food quota, but Daniel had a foot-long Pronto Pup (the Big Daddy) and a deep fried Milky Way on a stick; but he got the punishment for that one because he sat…

  • Change

    Change is the law of life.John F. Kennedy

  • Anger

    There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.  His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.  Over the next few…

  • Back to School

    We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.Peter De VriesI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark TwainGrammar school never taught me anything about grammar.Isaac GoldbergEducation would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every…

  • Gratitude

    Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.Gertrude Stein

  • Reliability

    Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.Jef Raskin