One Way: You decide to make something by following a plan and getting the pieces organized. After reading up, practicing, and seeing progress, you get started and go until it’s done. That’s one way. Then there’s the other way.
FRIENDLY OWLS IN THE FOREST DARK
November 15, 2024 by
I’ve heard owls hoot and they sounded like friendly owls. But I’ve never seen one in the wild. Until yesterday.
HOW TO QUIT CARING AND MOVE ON
July 10, 2024 by
If you quit caring about someone or something, how do you explain it to yourself, let alone anyone else? You can’t just quit and leave it at that. You need to explain it all in painful detail. Or maybe that’s just me.
EXERCISING RIGHTS FOR BETTER LIVING
June 12, 2024 by
Exercising rights are a mental thing; also a physical thing. The mental part is realizing the benefits of the physical thing. How often has someone doubted the benefits of either? When they do cast doubt, they do it from a couch eating bonbons.
SETTLED RULES = LAW OF THE LAND
March 31, 2024 by
When settled rules are ignored they get angry. Common courtesy wants to fight. Good manners want a go in the octagon. Eventually things calm down in what I understand is called ‘normalized’, as in: The New Normal.
FOR OLDER PEOPLE: WHAT’S IT LIKE?
March 4, 2024 by
Who doesn’t like a question directed to ‘older people?’ This was the question from twitter: I wonder what it’s like for the older people now, who were born in the previous millennium. How can people born in 1999 be old? Easy.
SELF DEFENSE EMAIL WITH TACTICAL DEALS
September 26, 2023 by
Self defense: a response to threat? Or a response to advertised threat? You are minding your own business deleting pushed email day after day from the same sources. Then it hits:
TIME TELLS ON ALL OF US
November 10, 2022 by
Time tells, so why not make it good story? “Go to sleep for twenty years and wake up and tell everyone how great you could have been.” That’s a line from The Tender Bar. It’s a good line, maybe the best in the movie.
OLYMPIC SPORTS EVENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE MOST?
February 10, 2022 by
The original Olympics had two sports events: Running and Wrestling. The funny part states that if you couldn’t wrestle, you ran, had to run, or the wresters would catch you. Every sport since has fit somewhere between wrestling and running. At least that’s the theory.
YOUR TRIBE: HAVE YOU FOUND IT, OR STILL LOOKING
May 20, 2021 by
Your tribe is waiting and it’s accepting memberships, if that’s the sort of tribe that appeals to you. Or maybe you’re more of a “Membership? We don’t need no stinking membership” sort of person. Either way, the yearning for connection, human connections, isn’t going away. But which tribe is your tribe? A few clues:
