Because sometimes the only person that can make you laugh and smile is yourself…

I think everyone has a way they eat M&Ms. Some grab a handful and stuff them all in their mouth at once, others first let them melt in their hands or eat them one by one.
I had no idea my “method” of eating this delicious candy would get me in trouble with my now fiancée. You see I eat M&Ms by pouring them all out on the table. I eat all the brown M&Ms first and then proceed to eat whichever color there are the most of until all colors have an equal amount. Then I will eat them in groups, well, I eat certain colors within the groups first – red, then orange, and [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve never considered myself a tree-hugger (but I might literally try it one day just for fun). However, I am socially aware of the damage we cause to our dear mother earth and it does bother me. With all the media coverage on large oil spills, natural disasters, corporate greed and their neglect of toxic waste and contamination, and even the societies that have to cleanup the mess and aftermath of war, we somehow think that our empty bag of tasty potato chips was meant to decorate the beach, the sidewalk, parks, and any other public space.
One of my all-time favorite highway signs in the US is the one that says “Litter and it will hurt”. I never knew [...] Continue Reading…

“You gotta be kidding me…”
That was my first reaction the first time I was exposed to a vagina monologue several years ago in the US. It was edgy, provocative and insightful. I couldn’t believe it. If it was liberating for me to hear them, I can’t imagine how liberating it must have been for Eve Ensler to write them.
I must admit that my initial shock to these monologues almost kept me from seeing their purpose. I was being bombarded with explicit and graphic truths that were not my own but truths of many women who survived rape, domestic violence, and/or dealing with other sexuality issues important to women today. Culturally speaking, it makes sense why a movement like this [...] Continue Reading…

Laughter is a beautiful expression. It’s pretty addicting if you ask me. I’d rather have a twelve-pack of good jokes and laughter than a keg of the best beer this world has to offer. Yet, we have been socialized to laugh and joke at appropriate times and settings. Some cannot fathom the idea of joking in a moment of despair. However, if I were to confine my laughter to the “appropriate” time and setting, my life would be filled with despair. That’s the beautiful thing about humor, because it’s subjective, what is funny to one person can be offensive to another. I won’t go into why a joke can be offensive because that’s a whole thesis in itself [...] Continue Reading…

Everybody on this earth has a story of struggle to tell. Who gets to hear that story is what makes it special. Not everybody goes public about it and sometimes a person’s story never gets told, which is pretty unfortunate. Not too long ago I became acquainted with a 21 year-old who grew up in the US ALL of his life. If I could describe him accurately, he is like the Mexican Bart Simpson but fluent in Spanish and English and his skin is not yellow. We’ll call him Hamilton in order to preserve his anonymity.

The last time I met someone like Hamilton in Mexico, they were on vacation during Spring Break and enjoying the great weather and beaches [...] Continue Reading…

When I was in the US, if the name Bill Gates came up in conversations, people tended to say positive things about him. I used to hear jokes in school about how Bill Gates was so rich that his house had its own zip code (which is not so funny when you realize it’s true!). Although some dismissed Mr. Gates as a man too rich to understand 99.99% of us, those same people could not deny the good work and contribution Bill was making around the world with his donations and philanthropy work.
When I worked with students a couple of years ago, I used to ask them if they knew who the richest man in the world was. The [...] Continue Reading…

OK, we’re all thinking it but nobody is saying it, so I will. If I ever write something on your Facebook wall and you don’t respond I will defriend you. No, that’s not “a little extreme”. Some people think that you’re not friends in real life if you’re not friends on Facebook, and my action to defriend you will honor that. Real friends respond. Period.

Or what, are you just adding friends to be a cool cat in a virtual world that feels so real? OK, we’ll see what happens at your funeral with your 1,239 Facebook “friends”. Maybe your mom can set up 1,239 computer screens with the mug shot of all your so called Facebook friends. But guess [...] Continue Reading…

What I love about life is that it always gives you opportunities to learn, grow, and challenge yourself on a daily basis. Those who say otherwise must be rich bastards. A big part of having a life is living it, and that means deliberately. How does one live life deliberately? Goals.
It would be pretty cool to be born with a life-long itinerary filled with prearranged activities, events, and things to do until the day you die. Even if each and every one of those activities tickled your fancy in a positive way, your personality would be as dynamic as a cave door. I don’t know about you, but I want me some personality!
We all have goals, but it’s crazy [...] Continue Reading…

Good ol’ Billy Bob here has an interesting philosophy: If you play soccer, you’re going to hell. The logic of his assertions would have impressed me in elementary school, but you can’t fool me now BillyBobNeck! I don’t want to ruin the video for you, but all of his statements are instant one-liner classics

How does this guy even know how to operate a computer?
PS. “Senile” also starts with an “s”

The beautiful thing about the internet is that motivation is just one click away. You can use it for good and to cultivate your well being in any way possible. The following video is very uplifting. I recommend you watch it while lying in a hammock like I am. Swing away…you can even close your eyes if you want to. Just make sure to wear sunscreen