Everyday Disasters

Reflections on Life

  • Seeing Red on the Sidewalk

    Bergen County has some of the best traffic markings in the country. Signs showing directions to other towns are plentiful, lights are intelligent and crosswalks are clearly marked. Several years ago they started painting the sidewalks at corners red. This is an eyesore that people gladly accept because . . .

  • Potty Talk – Cleaning the Bathroom

    By now the maid has finished her time in the kitchen and needs to hit the other rooms in the house. Bathrooms are definitely an area you want her to concentrate on. I have a lot of surfaces I want cleaned every time she comes. I can live with her washing the plastic shower curtain…

  • Should Communities Support Seed Banks?

    Norway, awash in oil revenue and significantly at risk if an abrupt climate change event occurs, has been working on a seed bank. They are planning to hollow out a mountain, install failsafe climate control and rent out space to governments to store seeds against cataclysmic disasters like abrupt climate change, asteroid strikes or nuclear…

  • NJ and Your Wallet – Traffic Court Wastes Taxpayer Money?

    I had to flip a car to discover a way for the state to save money . . .

  • Does a Maid Destroy Your Child’s Character?

    If you’re new – I wrote the How to Hire A Maid like a book. Click Table of Contents for future articles and links to old blogs in a more comprehensible order – or just click here & go to the bottom to read it straight through by scrolling up to each article. Everyone knows…

  • Trash and the Maid

    If you’re new – I wrote the How to Hire A Maid like a book. Click Table of Contents for future articles and links to old blogs in a more comprehensible order – or just click here & go to the bottom to read it straight through by scrolling up to each article. It’s a…

  • Training the Maid

    The new maid has finally arrived. Your first task is to convince her that you don’t want her to clean the house.

  • In Defense of Clutter

    I often read about ways to organize my life and eliminate clutter. It sounds very seductive – relieve stress, find your keys instantly, purify your mind. I wonder though about the other values you embrace on your way to a clutter-free life.

  • It’s Important Not to Let Your Kids Torture the Maid

    Dee’s Story Dee is a respectable matron with a responsible position in municipal government, but she wasn’t always. In fact, Dee seems to have been a bit of a terror. In the ancient times of party lines and B&W TV, Dee attended Kindergarten. Since she came from a well-to-do and progressive family her father would…

  • How Likely Is It That The Gulf Stream Will Actually Stop?

    There’s only about a 10% possibility (very unlikely) that there would be an abrupt climate change event in the 21st century according to the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Does considering that a 30-year old male with a new baby will probably buy life insurance for the next 20 years on his 5 1/2%…

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