Coffee cups are sometimes so hot that you involuntarily drop them, spilling the burning contents over your arms and onto the floor and allowing a stander-by to practice his/her first aid knowledge on your new injury—that is, cold water and a salt compress.

Lesson learned: get a cup cozy.

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If you’re disappointed in your quirky version of a Christmas tree this year, don’t be. What is ‘classic’ anyway?

Finding a ‘classic’ Christmas tree is probably impossible; every Christmas tree seems to have a set of oddities that make it ‘cool’ rather than ‘classic.’

Imperfect or cool? It’s your decision:

1. Christmas trees with ambiguous religious backgrounds–
“Christmas tree 2004, proving beyond dispute that I am indeed the world’s worst Jew.”

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Tea-scented pillows are pretty easy to make. The instructions are so simple that one could simplify them into five simple sentences (i.e. five subjects and predicates).

Furthermore, the subjects are invisible—which may or may not be simpler depending on your feelings about ‘the implied you’.

This introduction is already more complicated than the tea-scented pillows.

Give it a try…

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We are entering the darkest week of the year, a depressing detail for SAD sufferers and a celebratory fact for nocturnal photographers.

For the sake of both, let’s hope for clear skies and low light pollution.

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