I read an article about the damaging economic effects that COVID-19 is having on businesses like barbershops and salons and the author pointed out that no matter how many haircuts you missed while the haircutters were closed, it took only one visit to the haircutter to make everything right and bring you back to normal, …
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One of these days will be the day
My two-year-old will walk over to me and sit down on my lap if I’m sitting on the ground. My four-year-old doesn’t do that anymore. Today, they both skipped their nap. Not even a long drive lulled them to sleep. One of these days will be the day. My kid will get off my lap …
Are you enjoying your blog?
The other day, my friend said, “I’m enjoying your blog.” “I’m not!” I laughed. “Sometimes it’s too much work.” I don’t mind that there are few subscribers. I don’t count the likes on Facebook. I’m mostly writing this for myself and trying to make it helpful for other people too. But sometimes you have to …
It will take longer than you think
Most everything is harder and more complicated than it first seems and lots of things will take longer than you think. But it will happen eventually if you keep on putting in the time and effort. There’s a saying: “We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in one year and underestimate what we can …
Where do we go from here?
The other day my car was in the shop and needed a new timing belt and we were trying to figure out if it had been replaced at 90,000 miles like it should have been or not. But why? We never got the answer—but we didn’t need it. No matter what the answer was, the …
Organic food is cheap when you change your frame of reference
I buy organic food whenever I can even though it’s more expensive because it tastes better or is healthier. Yes, it can be hard to look at a jar of mayonnaise that’s not organic, tastes very similar, and is half the price of organic mayonnaise, and not buy it. But when that happens, I just …
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Check every link in the chain
Once we stayed at a guesthouse and after a couple of days there I said to my wife, “Too bad the water tastes funny,” and then she said, “What do you mean? It tastes fine.” And then I tasted water from her cup and it did taste fine. It turns out that it was just …
Following the leader vs the first person
I often see my 2-year-old kid mimic the things my 4-year-old kid says and does, even when she doesn’t know what she’s repeating. It makes me think that there’s a human tendency to just do whatever the person next to you is doing. That sounds very dangerous. Following should be a choice, not a knee …
10 minutes crying about 1 second
My 4-year-old son fell off his bike and scraped his knee while we were biking. It was very minor, with no blood or even redness. He seemed okay immediately after but then my wife wiped his scrape with some of her saliva and that set him off crying. He probably spent about 10 minutes crying …
Cleaning up
No one wants to look at clutter all the time. And no one wants to clean up constantly. You see the problem.