Bellyachers Beware By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Do you ever feel like your life is nothing but one big, long to-do list? Remember when you were a kid, and you dreamed about growing up, and how you were going to do whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted? Well, how’s that.
[Read More]Behind the faade of the bragging bachelor By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I’ve just met the worst person in the world. Well, OK, I didn’t meet him, I just did a phone interview with him, and frankly I didn’t think he was that bad. Atlanta bachelor, John Fitzgerald Page was.
[Read More]Press 1 to be ignored in English By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is customer service in America dead, or is it just sleeping? Or perhaps it’s moved to India and it’s hiding behind a voice mail menu? I doubt I’m the only one who’s noticed that the days when an.
[Read More]Me monologues and the lost art of conversation By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Have you ever had one of those one-way conversations? You know, the kind, where the other person yammers on and on about their life while you just smile and nod? It’s amazing how many times you can.
[Read More]Feathers, Fathers and Unforeseen Favors By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Men: Does taking your kids to the fair, or giving them a bath or going to a Cub Scout meeting count as a favor for your wife? Well, sort of. It’s an odd paradox; every woman within a five-mile radius.
[Read More]The soul-sucking grind of frequent flying By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Ahh, the glamorous life of a business traveler. Winging your way from one city to the next, whisking through airports, your calf leather luggage slung casually over your shoulder. Los Angeles one day, New York the next, and you.
[Read More]A man, a van and an ill-conceived plan By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I come from a long line of do-it yourselfers. Yes sirree, there’s nothing my family likes better than tackling some big unwieldy project involving overly-optimistic plans, a completely unrealistic assessment of our own skills and a total.
[Read More]Is The Office The New Bordello? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I’m sure you have a lovely navel, but that doesn’t mean I want to see it at the office. Yes, this is a rant. At the risk of sounding like my grandmother, since when did it become acceptable to.
[Read More]Squabbling siblings and the faults of the favorite By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “She stole my jeans and she never gave them back.” “Did not.” “Did too, they were under your bed.” “I didn’t steal them, I was just borrowing them. ” “It’s not fair, Mom and Dad let you.
[Read More]Gimme my babies Hollywood style By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I want a do-over with my two kids. Not the kids themselves, they’re absolutely fabulous. What I’d like another crack at is pregnancy, childbirth and the whole postpartum thing, because clearly, I didn’t manage it correctly the first time. If.
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