Our personal history of life is full with intervention of numerous people’s kindness, from trivial things to big helps when we were really in urgent need. Is it enough just saying thank you to express your gratitude? The answer is can be both yes or no, depends on each person and on how big […]

A mouseburger’s friends are, in some respects, like her lungs or liver—she can’t get through life without them. Friends are almost a bigger deal than lover or husband. Those you can get through life without, at least for long periods, but friends—they are a staple of every functioning mouseburger.
Once in a while you meet […]

Celebrities, though not necessarily difficult, are also different from you and me (I’m not a celebrity so we’re not talking about me). These are my rules for the famous:

Talk quietly. Don’t burble. Say how honored you are when introduced but don’t get all sweaty, agitated and babbly.
The more facts you have, the better. Familiarity with […]

If we all heard every conversation in which we were mentioned unfavorably, we’d mainline on Valium. Don’t you sometimes say rotten things to close friends about people you love? Could you trust anybody who doesn’t ever complain about near and dear ones, even a husband (especially him!).
That would mean they’re too stuffy to admit their […]