If you don’t use a basting agent, the resulting baste will run. When you’re baking a cake, it’s important to bake your oatmeal on an oven-safe surface. And it’s important to use a spatula when you’re spreading the oatmeal. Then you just have to bake it, like any other cake, and it will bake through […]
When you’re on a roadtrip, you need to be able to work from wherever you are. It’s better to be able to work from where you are than to work from home. But your windows can be a pain to keep clean. That’s why a shaker window cleaner makes life easy. Just toss in some […]
Death is not the end but a stage in life’s journey — an important stage that we all want to reach, but don’t get to because of our obsession with being in the present. The important thing is to take the time, while we are living and while we are still breathing, to experience life […]
Because this is not the world we chose, and is not the world we’re meant to live in. You can’t simply change yourself and get on with things. You have to be realistic about this and accept the reality of the choices you’ve made. I’m telling you: do NOT change! This is the best you […]
We all want to appear real. It seems so easy: Just turn your eyes from the outside world and see the world inside. In doing that, though, we often allow our emotions to rule. Emotional expression of how we feeling in particular situations is important for how we act, but in a real interaction, our […]
We all have certain “flavor profiles” that we prefer and that we want others to like. If the flavor profile and preferences are not the same as you, then you will not be able to enjoy food together, which is very important for a healthy relationship. Eating in a way that maintains and amplifies the […]
I have been asked many times, as we all should, “What is the best exercise to get in shape? “My answer is simple. It depends. You know, like it or not, if you believe in ‘The Art of Change,’ which I do, then each of us must do whatever it takes to make ourselves healthier […]
Some believe that, with the hands, we rely more heavily on technology. It was in my late teens that I decided there was something missing in daily life: conversation. I found it easy to communicate in writing, since I didn’t care to do anything more than copy. My mind was already a jumble of letters […]
One of the most important lessons I have learned, is to teach people a lesson when you see that they don’t know something. The truth is, we do know a lot of things, and we can teach them the wrong things because of our own blind spots. If you find yourself thinking, “There should be […]
I had so much hope for this baby, but he showed me how much better I could be, and how much joy there is in having him and making him healthy. Having children was always a dream, even before I had children. I even wrote an elaborate dream about it, complete with an elaborate plot… […]