Everyday Disasters

Month: March 2007

  • Carnival of Family Life – future host

    I’ll be hosting the April 16 Carnival of Family Life. I’ll be happy, I’m sure, with all submissions that meet the carnival criteria, but I’ll give special prominance to submissions where your family worked to make your community better. Thanks.

  • A Welcoming Bathroom

    Most bathrooms can be improved with three simple steps. 1. Have a guest basket. . . .putting everything a visitor might want in a bathroom in a basket greatly increases your visitor’s enjoyment of their visit. A broken nail or dry eyes may not rise to the level . . .

  • A Boy and the Shower

    I’ve finally come to accept that my 10-year old son must be brain damaged. There were signs –

  • Insurance Companies – the Unexpected Ally in Long-term Planning for Disaster

    In the US, insured climate-related losses have gone up 10 times faster than premiums or economic growth since 1971. Lloyds of London issued a report in June, 2006 Climate Change: Adapt or Bust. outlining the challenges facing the insurance industry and their analysis of insurer’s risk from global climate change. They recommend spending much more…

  • More Trash and the Maid

    Send in more maid stories – I couldn’t even begin to make this stuff up – My in-laws returned from a 3-week trip the other day. While they were gone the maid came in to clean . .

  • Is My Maid Stealing?

    Conventional wisdom seems to hold that all maids pilfer. If you’ve found a maid through networking this is almost certainly not true. Most maids have a very good grasp of the fact that, like Caesar’s wife, they must be above suspicion. They want to keep their jobs and get recommendations. Maids are easy to blame…

  • Deer and the Abrupt Climate Change Game

    Deer are currently nothing more than a nuisance in the Northeast – areas with deer tend to have endangered tulips but don’t contend with massive outbreaks of Lymes Disease. Communities tolerate leveled hostas and even an occasional car accident out of a respect for co-existing with nature or a desire to not kill Bambi. Does…

  • Marriage and the State

    I’ve been following the marriage for gays controversy with some disbelief. I have decided however that conservatives have a point. Religious marriage is between a man and a woman. (Secular marriage performed by a judge is between whoever the courts say it is and in the future it may change.) Religious, indeed all marriages, have…

  • British Airways Lost Baggage Policy – Wrong

    British Airways has a quaint notion that if they tell their clients with lost baggage that it is not their policy to address the issue they can ignore the problem. This is not legally correct