Remember the rule: We are surrounded by crazy people…..Only we’re not surrounded.

Note: When our anxiety gets the best of us, when our emotions are running the show, sentences come out of our mouths….completely short-circuiting the thinking process. Also, our Emotional Guidance System knows everything about how other people should live their lives…

The thinking part of our brain…considers the long-term effect of our words…our thinking brain also but not that chronically insecure demon inside us…ready to tell the world what we “think.”…That cute little big-mouthed demon is particularly adept at noticing ways in which people are living their lives differently from ourseleves…and asking the question, “What’s wrong with those people?”

This is a dangerous and unfortunate practice since whatever monstrous and stupid behavior you dare mock in others…you will be fated to one day to not only accept…but to relish.

When I was in college, if I spotted a car with a small dog hanging his silly head out the window, his ears flapping in the wind…I could be relied on to point out my superior choices in life by asking, “What kind of person wants to tie themselves down with a house dog? What’s WRONG with those people? Do they just not have enough to do that they want to run home a couple of times a day to let out the dog? There are enough things you have to do in life, what could possibly possess a person to voluntarily take on a bunch of extra work?…You know, I knew a person once who let her dog sleep in the bed….actually this wack job had two dogs sleeping in her bed.”

His name is Sammie Davis Jr. after a one-of-a-kind entertainer. Sammie’s mother is mostly shih tze and his father was one of those traveling men with a twinkle in his eye your mother warned you about. He’s getting along pretty well with Crazy Dog. Sammie’s a baby, which means he wakes up in the middle of the night and plays “leap frog” with himself on my back.