Thursday, January 5, 2012
I’ve written about 25 blog entries over the past several years that I’ve never published because I didn’t think they were good enough. So, for New Year’s, I’m cleaning them up and clearing out my backlog of drafts. Roger Ebert, who for some reason has one of the smartest and most consistently readable blogs on [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The world is a storm. We come in, screaming like waves shattering on a beach. We are battered by rain and by wind. Clouds and lightning keep us from seeing ourselves or our world clearly. We are, essentially, alone. Our struggles are fought mostly alone, mostly internally. We can reach out and hold hands, but [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Rapidly changing your habits can feel like a godsend at first. It makes you feel powerful and in-control and that’s all wonderful. When you change quickly, the people around you notice. You can ride that high for months. I’m not strictly speaking about my diet, although that’s certainly an aspect of me that has changed in [...]
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Or at least, some significant portion of the U.S. population seems not to. I think there have been some really disturbing trends in U.S. politics recently, and when I look the social forces behind those changes I can’t help but get the feeling that a large portion of Americans are increasingly unconcerned with the factual [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
This past weekend, Michael and I took an Amtrak train from St. Louis to Kansas City. The trip totaled a little over 260 miles by rail, and takes about five hours. For the first two hours, I was delighted by the train itself and the Missouri river running along one side of the train. After Hermann, [...]
No, that’s not my bleak sentiment for the day, as fun as it is to remember ever-encroaching mortality. Nope, the title is coincidentally the title of a Type O Negative song. Their front-man Peter Steele died last week. His death has sort of brought to a head lots of ideas swirling around in my head. [...]
*Or why I love The Common Market in Frederick, MD. Like most people, Michael and I are looking for ways to cut costs. We called our current cable company and ended up getting a reduced rate for the same services when we said we wanted to cut services. We’re trying to stop eating out entirely, [...]
I’ve written before about driving. I’ve also written about how the one trait I hate most about anyone is presumption. I think speeding and presumption go hand-in-hand. Here’s my rant: The speed limit is generally regarded to be the maximum limit. Meaning, it is not meant to be the speed at which you drive, but [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why we, in this culture, tend to see a man who doesn’t eat meat as being… feminine. Michael got a comment this weekend that spurred my thoughts, but it wasn’t an unusual comment or even one that I – at some point in my life – would not [...]
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I saw a counselor once who bemoaned the state of education and psychological health because it encouraged people to attach their egos to the things they undertook. She was just beginning piano lessons and she offered me this example. If her teacher was concerned about her hurt feelings, they might tell her she did well [...]