Life Done Right™

Most grandparents these days have to travel miles to see their grandkids. Throw in a divorce or separation and the likelihood of seeing them becomes even more problematic. Never fear. There are always someone else’s kids to worry about. In Florida, grandparents can volunteer to read to elementary school students. Getting out of bed for [...]

Singing in the shower and pretending you’re a rock star is one thing. Posting videos to YouTube and confirming your cult status as a purveyor of mediocre is, well, the way the world operates these days. Sit back, pop a caffeine free diet Pepsi, and pretend you’re listening to Whitney Houston sing like she lost [...]

Pop culture requires keeping up with the latest gossip. Britney Spears has done her part to provide plenty of juicy tabloid moments that will go down in 21st Century history as iconic gestures of a frail mind whose wiring lacks that structure of an advanced education. Duran Duran, with the help of former Britney [...]

The internet thrives because it allows people to constantly update their fixation on matters both trivial and serious. If your thing is sock puppets, chances are someone out there has posted a daily sock puppet routine on YouTube. It all seems harmless until someone catches you in a public place doing something that normally happens [...]

Feeling powerless in your old age? Unwanted? Left out of the family action because everybody moved into the big city leaving you behind to watch the squirrels attack your bird feeder in the country? Buck up, my friend, you do have power. Research shows that the grandparent-grandchild relationship offers a special bond for forging the [...]

The approaching holidays are already being peddled like rotten chestnuts by desperate retailers who have just one item on their wish list: spend, spend, spend. Forget that sub-prime mortgage crap that caused the value of your house to disappear faster than a huckster Santa up your chimney. Forget the fact that President Bush has squandered [...]

© Christopher Peterson
OK ladies, take a lesson from Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of real estate developer Donald Trump, and find yourself a younger man so you can be a sexy nanny instead of a nurse maid to a soiled old man who constantly forgets your name, unless, course, the old man has the bucks, in [...]

Does your child or grandchild look like Mark Zuckerberg? Right down to the Adidas flip-flops? Congratulations! He or she too could be the founder of a billion dollar company! Mark is the founder of Facebook, that online social network the younger generation loathes your presence on. Ideas don’t require wearing a suit, so mellow out [...]

The Happy Happy Joy Joy Song from Ren & Stimpy contains the line: “I don’t think you’re happy enough. That’s right, I’ll teach you to be happy. I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!” There! Now you know why the youth have no respect for their elders. Grandma needs to just go suck eggs and [...]

Teenagers pretty much find everything their parents do incredibly lame and like, whatever. As the years pass, though, the relationship teeters back to the smarmy middle where it’s more about enjoying their presence cuz like life really is short after all and who has time to worry anymore about whether your cliquey friends think you’re [...]

Once upon a time staying in touch with your friends meant getting off your butt and walking down the sidewalk to your next door neighbor’s for a cup of coffee. Now, everyone drinks their coffee at Starbucks and lives a million miles away from most of their family so the idea of staying in touch [...]

This is a terrible story. Imagine being a mother of 11 and a grandmother of 50 only to find yourself one day confronted by a 17-year-old punk who rapes and kills you. Awful. Just awful. No motivation either. Not a good Thank God It’s Friday story. Hopefully this kid’s minor status does not prevent him [...]

They say laughter increases your time on this planet. Please, join this German small person (midget is so 20th Century) for a hardy har har because one day the laughter will stop. Might we suggest you videotape yourself laughing like him so your grandkids can enjoy your sense of humor in the future to take [...]

Hypothesis: A post-menopausal woman has more time to spend with her kids and grandkids, thereby providing them with support and love that gives them a survival advantage.
This sounds good in theory. Getting the proper love and nurturing sure as hell can’t hurt your chances of surviving but that’s no guarantee for those of you still [...]

It’s human to desire children, especially when they are conceived out of your own DNA and come out bearing a pretty good resemblance to those who created the little tyke. When mother nature doesn’t cooperate, though, and the parts fail to produce offspring, should that be the end of the genetic road to conception? Is [...]

© Fred Thompson
Jeri Thompson, the wife of Fred Thompson, you know, the guy pretending to run for president, would like y’all to know that she’s no trophy wife who rests on a pedestal in her husband’s bedroom. No sireee, she’s a bona fide wife and not some “older-man-dater kind of girl.” Glad you cleared that [...]

Generational warfare may seem like a parlor game merely played out in the minds of the old and young at neither one’s expense, but the recent revelation that those in their 30’s (one-third!) are so mired in debt that they are suffering from severe depression indicates that the Baby Boomer generation has totally screwed the [...]

If you thought getting out of a bed this morning was tough, imagine living in Zambia where seniors are “either shunned by communities as witchcraft practitioners or, with little or no understanding of the disease, are burdened with caring for HIV/AIDS orphans.” That’s reality, my friends. I guess the missionaries have encountered some trouble with [...]

When your lose your Vimeo boyfriend like Julia Allison recently did, thank god she still has her wise grandmother to turn to for advice because, you know, grandma has a “lot of interesting perspectives.” Strange to see a dating-relationship gossip journalist for Star magazine having her personal life suck up some of the celebrity news [...]

I was just reading a book on how to teach fluency in reading. When you’re a tyke in grade school, the thought of comprehending HOW you to read is about as relevant as asking a dragon how he makes all that fire coming out of his mouth. As an adult, though, the question becomes far [...]