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  • Is It Just Us Or Human Nature?
    The dictionary defines human nature as general psychological characteristics, feelings and behavior regarded as shared by all humans - "regarded" being the operative word.
  • How Do We Get Old Enough To Know Better?
    George Bush, Senior is quoted as saying, "I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress".
  • Who Put The City In Specificity?
    Forbes Magazine is known for its annual, money-related lists. Of course, who is on these lists changes as the economy changes.
  • Has It Come To This?
    Okay, they proved the world is round instead of flat, but some things make you think the world is off kilter.
  • When Are We Old Enough To Know Better?
    As we get older our bodies change. So do our memories - making it easier to forget how we used to be.
  • Are You Sure You Want To Have Children?
    After 10-12 years parents know a lot about parenting, but by that time children don't think their parents know anything.
  • What Does Living In The U.S. Mean To Us?
    The U.S. offers its citizens life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - as well as some other not so obvious benefits.
  • What Do Inquiring Minds Want To Know?
    What's a belly button? Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? We think we know the answers to some questions until we're asked.
  • Where Are Americans On The Go Going?
    In 2008 the one millionth American moved to Mexico, making Mexico the host country for the most Americans - more than in the U.K. or Canada.
  • Why Didn't I Think Of That?
    Hair pins, paper clips, twistems used on bread packaging, post-it motes, pet rocks - someone had to think of them.
  • In Need Of A "Moving" Experience?
    Americans move for a variety of reasons - family, jobs, money, retirement. According to the 2010 census, the most people moved to Texas.
  • Is The Average American Still Average?
    The dictionary defines the adjective average as meaning the usual kind; but wouldn't most of us describe ourselves as average?
  • What's New In Self-Help Health?
    If Americans took better care of their own health, they wouldn't have to take themselves to their doctors so often.
  • What Puts The "Can" In Americans?
    Do other industrialized countries study their citizens as much as America does or are these studies just the American way?
  • What Are Americans Up To Now?
    According to the 2010 census, there are 308,745,538 Americans. Obviously, procreation is very near the top of the activities list.
  • Has Our Health "Weighted" Too Long?
    Research shows that people who keep track of their calories on a daily basis lose twice as much weight as those who don't.
  • How Many People Who Say "I Do" Do?
    According to the 2010 census, the divorce rate has leveled off. Now there are more "I do's" than there are don't'.s
  • Is The Mom-entum Of Women Changing?
    According to the 2010 census, foreign-born women were 7% likelier to have a baby than women born in the U.S.
  • Is The Unusual Getting More Usual?
    The dictionary defines the adjective unusual as meaning not usual or common; rare. However, isn't today's unusual often tomorrow's usual?
  • Do Good Ideas Grow On Trees?
    An idea starts as a seed. It grows into a good idea when it's planted in the minds of believers.
  • Is The U.S. An Abbreviated Us?
    I wonder ... with 50 states and over 311,000,000 Americans, does the U.S. change us or do we change the U.S.?
  • Isn't Pain A Four-Letter Word?
    The dictionary defines the noun pain as physical or mental suffering caused by injury, disease, grief, anxiety - life in general.
  • What Studies Relate To Relationships?
    The dictionary defines the verb relate as meaning to connect, as in thought or meaning - meaning everything could be related.
  • Are We Forgetting About Alzheimer's?
    In 2011 there are 5.4 million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. By 2050 the number is expected to almost triple.
  • What's The Skinny On Being Overweight?
    There is so much new information about the physical repercussions of being overweight one can't help but feel "weighed down".
  • How Do Americans Measure Up?
    Studies showing the percentage of Americans affected by various ailments are popular - causing me to wonder what percentage of Americans have been studied.
  • What Would We Do Without Words?
    "A speech, sound, or series of such sounds, having meaning as a unit of language" - it seems to take a lot of words to define what a word is.
  • What Would Change If I Ran The World?
    Fantasizing about ruling the world helps one deal with the frustrations of daily life.
  • What's New In Who Knew?
    Because the internet greatly increases the amount of available information, what's new isn't new as long.
  • Is There A Recipe For Making Money?
    Americans have lots of ways to make money. Unfortunately, among developed countries, America ranks near the bottom in saving that money.
  • Is Work A Four-Letter Word?
    Work is something you have to do to earn money. A job is something you do to earn money.It's not "have" as hard.
  • What's Good About Good Health?
    Good health is based on five things. It's based on six things if you count luck.
  • Is There Humor In Politics?
    In politics a spoonful of humor makes the message go down.
  • Can You Take The "I" Out Of Traffic?
    Traffic is one of life's puzzles. While it slows you to a stop, it drives you crazy.
  • How Do You Manage Home Management?
    Is it just me or is home management a euphemism for homework?
  • Does Success Make You Successful?
    If you're trying to find success, it helps to know where to look.
  • Does Life Make Us Gamblers?
    Gambling isn't just putting money in a slot machine or buying a lottery ticket. Gambling is part of our everyday life.
  • What Did Your Mother Tell You?
    We give our children the best advice we can. It sounds familiar because we heard it from our mothers.
  • What Topics Are In For Being Stressed-Out?
    Stress is defined as mental or physical tension. Unfortunately, what causes stress isn't as easily defined.
  • Are We Acting Our Age?
    Anti-aging is big business - which makes me wonder if wisdom really does come with age-ing.
  • Does Charity Really Begin At Home?
    Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but charity makes the heart grow fonder of home and lots of other things.
  • Do We Put The Lax In Relaxation?
    Is it just me or is finding a way to relax stressful?
  • Is It Later Than You Think?
    Is it just me or are we living in such fast-paced times that it's always later than we think.
  • How Well Do You Know Your Inner Child?
    Although we all have an inner child, not enough of us ask if this child wants to come out and play.
  • Do We Suffer From 1st World Problems?
    In America, the land of plenty, we don't have 3rd world problems. What we have are plenty of 1st world problems.
  • Why Is There So Much His In History?
    Until recent times those who were predominantly MENtioned in history books were men.
  • Should Dieting Be Called "Liveting"?
    The first definition for diet in Webster's Dictionary is "what a person or animal usually eats or drinks". Weight loss isn't mentioned. Doesn't that mean 100% of Americans should be on healthy diets?
  • Is It Murphy's Law Or Me?
    Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong will. Although that's a negative outlook on life, there are days when its ring of truth is deafening.
  • Do You Force The Forces Of Motivation
    Maybe it's not love that makes the world go around. Maybe it's motivation.
  • Do You Have Any Saving Graces?
    The Declaration of Independence guarantees us the right to the pursuit of happiness, but the pursuit has made us almost last among developed nations when it comes to saving money.
  • Do Advertisers Put The Ad In Ad Nauseam?
    The purpose of advertisements is to sell products, but sometimes it's hard to buy what the advertisements say.
  • Are All Ideas Created Equal?
    Inventors continually prove that not every idea is a good idea.
  • Who Knew Pyrotechnics Is A Hobby?
    From apple growing to zither playing, listing all the possible hobbies one could have could be a hobby.
  • Don't You Hate Feeling Taken?
    Cleaning solutions that don't remove stains, diet pills that don't burn fat, cars that don't run as good as they look - the only thing worse than feeling taken is feeling taken twice.
  • Is It Really As Good For The Gander?
    In marriage, job and life expectancy, what's good for the goose isn't always the same for the gander.
  • Do Old Sayings Still Mean What They Say?
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away, absence makes the heart grow fonder, don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today - old sayings never die, we just hear them differently.
  • Why Aren't Things What They Seem?
    Computer graphics, special effects in movies, plastic surgery - these are just a few examples of why things aren't always what they seem.
  • Is It To Die For?
    To die for is a frequently used expression. Paradoxically, it's an expression with long life.
  • What's The Lowdown On Dental Hygiene?
    Electric toothbrushes, whitening toothpastes, bacteria-fighting rinses and minted flow - today dental hygiene is a subject you can get your teeth into.
  • Is It Really What It Seems?
    If what you see is what you get, why don't I know if it really is what it seems?
  • Is There Other Than A Mother?
    When a woman becomes a mother, she becomes a jacqueline of all trades.
  • How Changeable Is Change?
    Change affects our lives in many ways. So what's changed?
  • Are You Old Enough To Know Better?
    Aren't people who worry about their age old enough to know better?
  • Are You Holding The Line?
    There are all kinds of lines. Frankly, just thinking about them causes lines in my forehead.
  • Is It Music To Your Ears?
    Music is like frosting on the cake of life. Not everyone likes the same kind of music, but - hard as it os to believe - not everyone likes chocolate cake.
  • What's Your Perspective On Perspective?
    Is it possible for our perspectives to change without us changing?
  • Do You Get What You Pay For?
    When we're disappointed with a purchase, it's hard to believe we got what we paid for. I've gotten some expensive lessons in life.
  • Are You Compulsive Or Just Highly Motivated?
    I don't think I'm compulsive about cleaning my kitchen. Some people think you are what you eat. I just think you are where you eat.
  • Are You Losing Sleep Over It?
    Has lack of sleep become this century's sleeping sickness?
  • How Many Makes A Collection?
    A man is known by the company he keeps - and the things he collects.
  • Is Not Celebrating Birthdays A Birthright?
    Tired of celebrating birthdays? Buy some champagne and confetti and celebrate your very own New Year's Day.
  • Are There More Dinosaurs?
    Plastic is replacing glass; but as it fills our dumps and leaches chemicals into our soil, the convenience of plastic has become a curse. It's changed our lives and soon it will change our language. We'll be wearing eyeplastics and serving beverages in drinking plastics.
  • Can Being Right In Style Go Wrong?
    Part of looking good is thinking you look good. Unfortunately, more of us should look in mirrors. Fad backward is daf.
  • Are They Dreams Or Messages?
    The most common dream is that our teeth are falling out. This dream reflects concern over our appearance or how others see us. These dreams mean we're experiencing a loss of power, a sense of inferiority or a lack of confidence. Maybe this is the most common dream because interpreting it gives us a lot to sink our teeth into.
  • Doesn't Every Litter Bit Still Hurt?
    My grandmother didn't approve of the romance novels I read as a teenager. She called them trash novels. However, she had an even lower opinion of newspapers like the Star and the National Enquirer. She called them bird cage liners.
  • Is Food For Thought Fattening?
    As a child, I was told I had to drink eight glasses of water a day. By third grade I'd figured out that was two quarts. Now experts have changed their minds. We don't have to drink that much water unless we want to float a loan.
  • Does Good Luck Believe In You?
    Some people say you make your own luck. My grandmother disagreed. She said what you make is effort and the more effort you make, the luckier you'll be.
  • Who Invented The Vent?
    From the beginning of time inventions have changed our lives. Take indoor plumbing, for example. If indoor plumbing hadn't been invented, we'd all be outsiders.
  • Do You Know How To Speak Spa-Nish?
    My grandmother said beauty starts within. I hope she meant within the walls of "Spas R Us".
  • Traveler's Checks ... And Balances?
    They say we are what we eat. If we eat what the locals eat when we travel, does that make us locals too?
  • Who Put Decor In Decoration?
    I didn't put up Christmas decorations this year. Because we were going to be away, it seemed like too much work. Instead, I decorated myself with a smile.
  • Do Mortgages Housebreak Us?
    According to my grandmother, a house is a house; but a home is what you make it. Unfortunately, she often followed those profound words with "and you can start by making your bed".
  • Do They Make Electric Security Blankets?
    Every winter my electric blanket was my security blanket. Then a report said I was sleeping under a magnetic field that could make me sick - and that didn't sound like a field of dreams.
  • To The Health With It?
    Getting enough sleep is important for our health. According to the National Sleep Foundation 100,000 car accidents are caused by sleep deprivation every year - but we're not meant to lose sleep worrying about it.
  • When Do Strangers Stop Being Strange?
    My grandmother always told me that I could turn strangers into friends. Well, my grandmother would be proud of me. I turned a stranger into a husband.
  • Do Open Houses Open Minds?
    When I had my first open house, I thought U should be there to answer questions. Not a good idea. Home is where the heart is - and where part of it will stay.
  • Gadgets - Mechanical Or Maniacal Devices?
    Gadgets are a part of progress and I'm trying to progress too. If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we stop clocks from blinking 12:00 after power failures?
  • Does Any Port In A Storm Include Airports?
    No weapons in carry-on luggage - fine; but I've had bruises on my shins that prove wheeled luggage is a weapon. I think wheeled luggage should have directional signals and break lights or airport police should give tickets for moving violations.
  • What Makes The World Go Around?
    Judging by the line of cars at Starbuck's drive-in window, coffee makes the world go around. Sometimes the line of cars causes traffic problems, but that doesn't seem to bring the police around. Oh - no donuts.
  • Can Errands Be Walked?
    I always have errands to do and there seems to be more every week. Maybe I've read too many books by Stephen King, but I wouldn't be surprised if my errands grew long ears and cotton-ball tails.
  • Do You Watch Out For What's In?
    Because my grandmother wanted to give me what was in style, she gave me what girls in her neighborhood wore. When my grandmother's eyesight started to fail, she went to Plan B. She asked me what I wanted. That's always in fashion.
  • Is Running Late Exercise?
    If the movie "Snow White" were made today, the seven dwarfs wouldn't sing "Whistle While You Work". Instead, Grumpy would have a solo. He'd sing, "Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think".
  • Are We Programmed More Than TV?
    When we're driving and see a red light, we're programmed to stop. Those who don't are programmed to look in their rear-view mirrors for at least twenty seconds.
  • Is Nostalgia A Sugar-Coated Memory?
    Last fall my husband and I took a trip back East. The tress were glowing in shades of yellow, orange and red. As a transplanted New Englander, I started to get nostalgic. Then I heard John say a four-letter word - rake.
  • Is It Advertising Or Adverteasing?
    If it says hardware on a sign, I know tools are sold there. I have no idea what's sold at West Coast Custom. Aren't signs meant to attract customers? If so, some signs needs "custom-er-izing".
  • Is It A Hobby Or Therapy?
    Hobbies are meant to turn free time into productive pastimes. Some people collect coins. Others collect stamps. I'm going to collect time for a new hobby.
  • Is Saying Please Inspirational Motivation?
    During different times in my life I've experienced different inspirational motivations. Now I'm wondering if my alarm clock qualifies as inspirational motivation.
  • Was The Hula Hoop An Original Idea?
    A hula hoop is a combination of the hula movement and a hoop. Is that an original idea? Maybe God had the only original idea.
  • Is Seeing Believing On TV?
    Supposedly, you can believe whatever you see with your own eyes. Is this still true when you see it through your TV's big eye?
  • No Saving Grace?
    According to a recent report, Americans have saved less than they have in seventy-two years. For many Americans save is one of THOSE four-letter words.

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