Whether you are alone, or enjoying the company of friends and family; Whatever you celebrate or don’t; I wish for you the greatest of blessings and all the peace and happiness in this year and the next. Thank you all for being part of my life. Regardless of what...
I often scare and amuse myself with the thoughts I wake up with. Today I woke up thinking: Michiganders refer to their northern region as “up north”; New Yorkers call theirs “up state”. I wonder what residents of other states call their northern areas and, secondly, why the hell...
“To cachinnate is to live. To do so among friends and family is what gives life’s memories their meaning.” – Wolf
It’s no secret that some serious and basic human rights are suspended, deferred, and outright denied for those caged at Guantánamo Bay, the United States’ military prison where it keeps its political prisoners. These violations also include the freedom to read. Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the charity...
I wonder just how far ahead the world would be- in relationships, science, and philosophy- if we all looked at our adult world through the eyes of a child. My good friend, Mike Slomka, put this up on his Twitter feed this morning. “Young people have no grasp of...
I think it’s fairly clear by now that I have a low tolerance for poor grammar and spelling from those who should know better. I try not to make people feel dumb when I point out mistakes because I do not expect everyone to write a sonnet or masterpiece...
Today we both finally found the time to put up our holiday decorations. The Yule tunes are playing and there’s a dusting of snow outside making for a festive feel. Oh, while shopping for a few mmiscellaneous decorations we found this display in a Meijer:
Mmm! I love an ice-cold glass of the processed dietary secretions of a bovine’s teet in the morning. It does a body good.
This is a great representation of our culture’s asinine and ignorant view of mental health, its causes, and its treatment.