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EXCUSE ME  

A quick take on begging in the United States. What should you do if someone asks you for money? What assumptions do you have? This is my two cents worth.

Listening is perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of prayer-especially when God seems to speak things that make the cerebral part of our beings uncomfortable.

What really goes on behind the cosmetics counter - these are the top 10 questions I've been asked about working in the retail cosmetics industry.

Am I a lezbo? I'm not at all attracted to Matthew McConaughey? Are Matthew McConaghey and Michael Bolton the same person?

Crazy in-law stories.

I got this great job by writing about how to buy a Sock Monkey on eBay...

This is a satire on my own despair in drinking, added with a moderate dose of hallucination and you have the bizarre, misunderstood life of an author on the rise.

The story of one man's fruitless search for a job.

I'm relaxing in a Dreammaker X-100 hot tub, and I've got Associated Content to thank for it.

What happens to a request deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or does it explode into a series of digressions?

A man has a incessant question since childhood about God. Will he find the answer?

This is a story about being stranded and finding help in the unlikeliest of places.

Starlets like Jessica Alba represent an impossible standard for women to live up to. After the inevitable vicious cycle of failed diets and brutal exercise regimens, is it any wonder that women who aren't bulimics feel bad about themselves?

Recycling is something I learned to do at a young age, but it wasn't until I was older that I fully realized the true impact that I can have by recycling - and the bigger impact of more widespread recycling.

Excuse me for jumping on the bandwagon, but the Los Angeles Lakers are legitimate championship contenders now!

I know people mean well when they say "Happy Holidays." But it bothers me that so many have forgotten "the reason for the season."

In the past we have heard of cases with Children suffering from ADHD, but suddenly almost each child that doesn't want to learn, has no form of manners or is in dire need for an excuse is diagnosed with ADHD.

Even as a missionary kid, I could never understand how I could have any sort of meaningful "personal relationship" (as Christians assured me I did) with a being who was invisible, inaudible, and intangible.

Bow Excuse Me went off at 27-1, but ran like a 1-1 favorite.

"Show me your t*ts." "Excuse me?" "Show me your t*ts and I'll give you a free drink." The man laughed. "I don't have t*ts."

Excuse me President Bush, may I ask you something?

Controversy has always created news, not necessarily relevant news, but it always tends to hit headlines. When Kanye West declared that President Crook, excuse me President Bush, is a racist it made massive headlines.

After publishing my first "Alcoholics and Me" article, I came under fire from my mother in law. Now she has turned back to drinking. Who's to blame?

I went from being a Catholic to a complete atheist after I discovered science. Yet, ironically enough, it was science that led me back to a belief in God.

'Tis true, I have lived the ultimate enigma: I've raged inward by questioning my own mind. And the "Catch 22" that you ultimately threw Has left me bitter, enraged and unkind.

My sister emailed me today and it seems that my brother is not doing so well. He's been in and out of the hospital since August 2004 and now resides in a nursing home.

Anger management is an overused term that often hides abusive or violent behaviors. When a person uses anger as an excuse to control, manipulate, or harm others it is called abuse.

There is something almost magical out in woods.

Who teaches these people to drive?

Time and time again Ann Coulter has shown the world that she is intolerant to those not like her and igorant in many ways. How this woman can be taken seriously is beyond me.

Don't get me wrong -- Oakland is home to some of the most beautiful and tolerant people on earth. We produce art, literature,we have scientists with one foot already over the event horizon-- and we got a lot of haters, too.

Look, I don't want to suffer through the forty minutes I am forced to spend with you. I would prefer to just get my tip and not have to entertain you, but since I must, read below to see what you can do to make it easier for me.

Thoughts on why I may or may not be afraid to succeed.

Why are some people always rude? Why do people get impatient when something can't be done any faster? Why do people ride your bumper when it's not going to be any quicker? It makes me wonder.

Consider the diet plans you have tried, and ask yourself why you think they did not work.

There is sometimes a delightful surprise that you can find on television these days. This strange show about football in Texas is one of them.

It was a regular day for me. I had just left my school, after a fun-filled day of lessons and learning with my students. Little did I know, there was another lesson awaiting my arrival.

For The Non believers in demonic possession
(and may the body of Christ be with you)
and if one believes in God
you should be a believer in the devil

I almost broke up with her the night I proposed. I had asked her why she loved me and she said nothing. Nothing.

You'll thank me for this information later.

From my childhoood days of Little League baseball to countless visits to the Rose Bowl, sports have always been my love. But at an earlier age in an unexpected place, I discovered a different passion that left me seeing the game from a different angle.

As a card carrying Canadian I dove right in and attended an American private university for graduate school in Manhattan. Dreams of Notre Dame and Spring Break dancing in my head with visions of young co-eds asking me to 'say 'eh?' again.' Until 9/11.

How one stop on the highway taught me about "Minnesota Nice"

The speaker's father attempts to prove his love his daughter is greater than that of the speaker's mother. The father attempts to hide his pedophiliac urges by showing paternal love, but ironically succeeds only in implicating himself in the process.

Now, how the heck someone had it in his mind to wipe hot mud all his body is beyond me. But I can tell you this: when you're covered in mud you perspire like a race horse.

As a novelist myself, I found myself re-examining my own techniques after reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Today, if a woman wants to focus her energies on keeping a nice home, raising good children and perfecting her lemon meringue pie recipe, she is now suspect.

I'm a big movie fan. I love the old black and white films as much as I love the new movies coming out. If you are like me and spend more money on DVD's than on food each month, you soon realize there has to be a better way.