Author: Dr Wingnut
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A woman’s public restroom adventure
My mother was a fanatic about public toilets. When I was a little girl, she’d bring me in the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat. Then, she’d carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat. Finally, she’d instruct, “Never, never sit on a public toilet seat.” And…
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Women Unite!
Helping the war effort while planning your mid-life crisis-what a plan!Take all American women who are within five years of menopause — train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna — drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan,…
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Nonsense
I like nonsense—it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope…and that enables you to laugh at all of life’s realities.Theodor S. Geisel, aka “Dr. Seuss”
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Compassion
As I walked down the busy sidewalk, knowing I was late for an important interview, my eye fell upon one of those unfortunate, homeless vagabonds that are found in every city these days. The poor person was wearing what can only be describes as rags, carrying every worldly possesion in two plastic bags, my heart…
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Laugh if you can
When I was younger I hated going to weddings. It seemed that all of my aunts and the grandmotherly types used to come up to me, poke me in the ribs, cackle, and tell me, “You’re next.”They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.via email Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:08:47…