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Work/Life

Corporate Flunkies Speak In Tongues

Corporate flunkies speak in tongues By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com What’s the difference between vision and mission, and does anybody even care? I’m all for getting everybody pointing in the right direction, but why do companies always seem to think that a bunch of fancy buzzwords etched into a bronze.

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Singing The Botox Blues

Singing the Botox blues By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com My hairdresser got breast implants and I’ve got the gray hair to show for it. Actually, it wasn’t her new D cups that left me looking like the Wicked Witch of the West. It was having the fat sucked out of.

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Mrs. Mom – Trials of a Reluctant Housewife

Mrs. Mom – Trials of a Reluctant Housewife By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I’m a housewife again. And I’m even worse at this job than I was the first time I did it. After a three-year stint of manning the home front while he looked for a business, my husband.

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Is Your Job Making You Fat?

Is your job making you fat? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com If you’re packing on the pounds, the real culprit might not be the office pastry cart, it might be stress. If you’ve ever been held captive in cubicle city, you know that sometimes doughnuts are the only way to.

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Song Of Guilt Is The Music Of Motherhood

Song of guilt is the music of motherhood By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com What are the tapes you play in your head? We’ve all got them. I’m sure there are a few blissfully contented people out there wandering around with the soundtrack from “The Sound of Music” playing cheerily in.

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Finding Grace When Your Job Is A Drag

Finding Grace when your job is a drag Excerpted from “Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear”By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com The concept of work-life balance is a crock. If your job is sucking you dry, leaving you with no semblance of a real life, better balance isn’t.

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You're Never Too Far Gone To Get Thin

You’re never too far gone to get thin By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I have discovered a miracle. Well, OK, maybe not a Moses parting the sea miracle, but a miracle exercise program that transformed me from an always-hungry, slightly chubby woman into a thin person who can actually eat..

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You’re Never Too Far Gone To Get Thin

You’re never too far gone to get thin By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I have discovered a miracle. Well, OK, maybe not a Moses parting the sea miracle, but a miracle exercise program that transformed me from an always-hungry, slightly chubby woman into a thin person who can actually eat..

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Dr. McDentist Makes Middle-aged Moms Melt

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.

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Planes, Trains And Drive-Through Fools

Planes, trains and drive-through fools By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com There are some situations that just bring out the stupid in people. Airplanes, drive-through windows and any form of public transportation are common stupidity trigger spots. I don’t know why, but whenever people’s bodies are supposed be moving faster, their.

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