A healthy lifestyle doesn’t start after you recover from a dreaded disease. Some people take illness as a reminder to step up their health routine, some ignore the whole thing. Which one is the right response? Both work, just one better than the other. But there’s that other part.
VICTIM MAN TELLS WOMEN ALL ABOUT IT
Who is victim man? You? Me? The guy down the street? It’s all of the above, but only one person gets the trophy: The man who cries and moans the loudest and most often.
NEW COMPASSION WITH A KIND RIGHT HAND
A new compassion has made its debut. And proved my Mom was correct. She believed most problems could be solved by slapping sense into whoever needed it. As one of her four kids, just hearing her theory was enough. Her career included managing a DMV office. (Keep that in mind the next time you complain […]
FEELING BAD? THINK OF OTHERS WHILE YOU SUFFER
Feeling bad, as if it’s not enough, comes with extras, like those trying to help you feel better. Think of them while you’re in the throes of misery. Whether you know it or not, your suffering is their suffering. They feel better when you feel better. This came up at a recent gathering of some […]
CARE ENOUGH TO NOT TURN YOUR BACK ON OTHERS
When I had to care enough to do things caregivers do, I used to joke, “It’s easier if you don’t care.” It was funny back then because I did things caregivers didn’t do and it earned me the title of ‘Heroic Caregiver.’ That was a name given with certain trepidations because heroic caregivers are one […]
EQUALITY EXPLAINED, OR “SO YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME, DO YA?”
Is equality ever explained in a rational way without some tag along. It’s “equality, but,” or, “equality when,” or some such qualifier, like only a conjunction conveys the ‘real truth.’ The problem is that equality explained with a qualifier is never equal. See, equality doesn’t need qualifiers, which is a reason to fight. But why […]