Dr Wingnut

Month: April 2007

  • Worry

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    If you worry, you die.  If you don’t worry, you also die.  So why worry?Mike Horn, Arctic Explorer

  • When insults had class

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    He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Winston ChurchillA modest little person, with much to be modest about.Winston ChurchillI have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.Clarence DarrowHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the…

  • Innocence

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    I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.Johnny Carson

  • Balance

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    God was missing for six days.  Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day.  He inquired, “Where have you been?”God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, “Look, Michael.  Look what I’ve made.”Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, “What is it?”“It’s a planet,” replied God, “and I’ve put life on…

  • What are the wim-wams?

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    …when Toby is bored or complaining, [his father] announces as if to an unseen audience, “The kid has the wim-wams.”Kinderscenen by John Updike in Harpers, December 2006, Page 82I always wondered what that was, but only since I read this short story, as I’d never heard this term before…

  • Names

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    Watching a child acquire language, I realize, again, that naming things demystifies them.Mary Casey

  • A simple approach to the 12 Steps

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    Step 1: There’s a power that will kill me.Step 2: There’s a Power that wants me to live.Step 3: Which do I want? (If you want to die, stop here./  If you want to live, go on.)Step 4: Using examples from your own life, understand that selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear control your actions.Step 5:…