Finding Grace When Your Spouse is Annoying Excerpted from “Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear”By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com The shrink test said he was motivated, creative and flexible. Surely this thing wasn’t talking about my husband. After 23 years of selling his soul to corporate America,.
[Read More]Is Televised Self-Help Taking the Place of Religion? Excerpted from “Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear”By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I think God is a large black woman, and She sent Oprah down to spread the love. The last guy She sent wasn’t too media savvy, so.
[Read More]Finding Grace When You’re Surrounded by Idiots Excerpted from “Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear”By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “The common denominator in all your failed relationships is YOU!” My sister and I found this truism on a “demotivational” poster on www.Despair.com, a site offering a hilarious.
[Read More]Why isn’t marriage as exciting as dating? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Singles searching for a spouse often believe that matrimony is the golden ticket to a lifetime of great sex, matching towels, funky artwork and meaningful conversations, kind of like a Pottery Barn catalogue come to life. But those.
[Read More]Dr. McDentist makes middle-aged moms melt By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com How do good-looking people find time to stay beautiful? What with schlepping my kids to the mall and surfing the Net for bargain handbags, I barely have time to shave my legs, much less make an appointment to get.
[Read More]The Meaning of Life in Two Words By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is it TV and Shopping? Or was the geeky professor of quantum physics right when he told my church that the meaning of life is actually “Friendship” and “Creativity?” When I first heard Dr. Casey Blood succinctly summarize.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “This is a total nightmare. The flowers are the wrong shade of papaya, the dwarf missed his entrance cue and now the band’s security detail is blocking my entrance to the stage.” The First Lady sweating the details of this state dinner? A bridezilla agonizing.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com What did you want to be when you grew up? If you were like many little girls who bought into the June Cleaver myth, you probably spent more time thinking about where you were going to live than what you were actually going to do..
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “We’re not made of money, you know.” If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times. Whether it was Mom explaining why we couldn’t afford designer jeans or Dad lecturing us to turn the lights off, it seemed like we were always worrying.
[Read More]By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Don’t you just hate those sunshiny, cheery people? You know the kind, always focusing on the good stuff and stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the petty annoyances that plague the rest of us. On some days I want to become one of the Pollyannas, and on.
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