Does your hairstyle determine how smart you are? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is your hair dumbing you down? A Yale University study reveals that, at first meeting, people make assumptions about income, intelligence and sex appeal not based on your clothes or body, but based on your hair. “Within.
[Read More]Sucking up to the Old Salt By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I don’t mention my dad often in this column but, at age 72, he’s a wealth of wisdom. Here, in his own words, is a classic Jay Earle story that always inspires me: I was just 18 and fresh.
[Read More]Bad manners maketh the SPAM By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Where have all our manners gone? Gone into cyberspace every one. Email is a fact of life. Unless you’re over eighty, nobody’s going to give you a “Get out of cyberspace free” card. But progress comes with its price, and.
[Read More]February: The month of love, lingerie and let-down By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Has there ever been a human desire more fraught with disappointment and misunderstanding than the art of romance? The word “romance” itself conjures up vastly different images for men and women. For us soap-opera-watching, Danielle-Steele-reading, fairy-tale-believing women,.
[Read More]Is focusing on flaws keeping you from being fabulous? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com We all have weaknesses. What are yours? I’m not talking about jiggly thighs or belly flab. I’m talking about all those “needs improvement” areas that bosses and teachers have been hammering on you about for years..
[Read More]The virtues and vices of the virtual life By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Paris and Nicole led “The Simple Life.” My grandparents are experiencing the bliss of the afterlife. But after a few decades of hassling with real life, my family and I have decided that we’re going to live.
[Read More]Don’t cast a shadow on the sunny side uppers By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I confess. I’m an optimist. You know, one of those annoying people who always looks on the bright side of life, believing that everything happens for a reason and insisting that a good attitude can turn.
[Read More]Don’t cast a shadow on the sunny side uppers By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I confess. I’m an optimist. You know, one of those annoying people who always looks on the bright side of life, believing that everything happens for a reason and insisting that a good attitude can turn.
[Read More]Is getting a girlfriend the saving grace of marriage? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Want to improve your marriage? Get a girlfriend. The right girlfriend can spice up a marriage in a way that Victoria’s Secret can’t touch. I personally credit two extra-special girlfriends with improving my sex life, helping.
[Read More]June 6, 1985. My mother circled the date on the calendar, informing me that from that moment forward, I would no longer be on her payroll. It was the fall of 1981 and, after getting me settled into my freshman dorm at the University of Georgia, my mother marched.
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