To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I’m a little less than two months shy of my 57th birthday. Of course, I can’t predict when I’m going to die, but barring a medical miracle, I’m several years closer to my death than to my birth. As a result of my advancing age coupled with a bad case of rational thought, my dreams [...]
I like getting relevant, non-spam comments on this blog. They tell me that people are actually reading my crap rather than just surfing here, dropping their Entrecard, and surfing off. I’ve noticed that a couple of topics can usually be counted on to boost my comment count somewhat. The first is religion or, rather, my [...]
If you believe in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, which is the foundation of Judeo-Christian faith, I think you have to come to the conclusion that God has a Type A personality and is a touch less than omnipotent. Think about it. He creates the heavens, Earth, light, water, sky, the sun, [...]
Have you ever had a song pop into your head for no apparent reason? You hadn’t heard it for quite some time. Nobody mentioned the title to you recently. The lyrics weren’t particularly relevant to what you were thinking at the time. But the song pops into your head nonetheless. That happened to me recently. [...]
A reader who came across my blog only recently mentioned that she was busy reading my earlier posts. She placed comments on a few items, including one I had written some time ago. (Thanks! I appreciate comments.) The post in question was related to aging. I won’t name the person or link to the post [...]
I am a freak of nature. I’m in the midst of reading a book by Steven Pinker titled How the Mind Works. I’m trying to pretend that I comprehend it and that I am retaining some of the information in the book but, not being very scholarly, that is purely a charade, so please don’t [...]
Over the course of my many years I’ve managed to notice a few things. What I’ve noticed most are women’s breasts, particularly when those women expose a lot of cleavage. Regrettably, it’s usually only the cleavage I get to see without a protective covering of clothing. When I’m able to look beyond women’s breasts””yes, it [...]
I don’t swear often. I do swear, just not often. I have two reasons for restricting my use of profanities. Neither of them have anything to do with any moral problem I may have with swearing because I have no moral problem with swearing. One reason I limit my swearing, the lesser of the two [...]