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I lived A Life That’s Good (Borrowed) A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonn...

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Brain fog. Somedays the train does come all the way back to the station. While there are numerous unpleasant ways to die, cancer and dementia are in the top 5 in my book. And I am putting that...

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Somedays my mind just wanders. Which is fine but I am afraid one day it isn’t going to make it back. And on some of those occasions, I get an answer to a question I didn’t even ask. Yes, I am ...

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A little humor to brighten your day…True Story by the way.. True story from my days working one of the hospital floors. I went in to check on a patient who had turned on her call light. Back in t...

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We have all seen them. Those paragraphs that set forth the legal language to keep us out of lawsuits. It is the reader’s responsibility to verify their own facts. The views and opinions exp...

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From the Shadows of my Mind Just another day, just another memory. Just another patient in a long week of names. Faceless, blurring, the mind-numbing task for people I don’t even know. To wha...

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I was never one who wanted to volunteer for anything. My time was more valuable to me. I was not about to give it away, freely. Of course, when I was younger I had a wife and family to spend t...

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I have never claimed to be a smart person. In high school, I was a C average student. There was nothing wrong with me, except I was lazy. I didn’t want to learn. I had no need for history, sc...

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An intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking, that is the definition of Epiphany. And I understand it so much better now. (Okay, I understand t...

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New Years Comes Again–Dateline 1/6/2020: And we are off! (mentally as well as physically but hey, it’s us crazies that make the world exciting.) I trust you all survived the holidays, made you...

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I grew up like most boys, thinking girls, (women) were all alike. They each liked romance, kissing, holding hands, flowers, compliments and Chivalry . Flash forward 50 years, man was I ever wro...

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It’s Complicated? When ever I see that on a relationship status my mind goes to, either one or both are married and they should not be in the relationship. But I could be wrong. I often am. ...

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Disclaimer: Ladies, I do not in any way believe that sexual assault and harassment is ever appropriate. Having said that I will continue with my rant! Carry On Ladies.) This whole #metoo movem...

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Okay, I have been a little slow jumping on this whole “smart” house revolution. Privacy concerns aside, I just didn’t see a need. Until I got one. And I think it is great except for the fact i...

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Term limits? Really? Let me ask you all a question. What good will term limits do? And before you give me the standard answer of it will put an end to career politicians, it won’t. We will j...

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If you met me on the street there is nothing that makes me stand out in a crowd. I blend in quite well. That is the way I got through high school. Blending in. And unless you have been a read...

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Robert Frost was one of the very few poets that I enjoyed reading in high school. And The Road Not Taken is my favorite. I have come to those two roads more than once in my life time. And it m...

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“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. Nietzsche had a way with...

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There is a classic scene in the 1965 movie Shenandoah, where Charlie Anderson, played by Jimmy Stewart, has a conversation with his daughter’s suitor, Lieutenant Sam. In the film, Sam approaches ...

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“When you’re attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are ...

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Okay, folks, let’s open up the phone lines for some questions. Dating Profiles, most seem to be pretty generic. Of course, I have already addressed the picture from when you were 21 as your pro...

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Sometimes, (more times than I like to admit) computers seem to have a mind of their own. I know there are keystroke combinations that can make your job easier, and then, there are those that jus...

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Well, it is finally here. The holiday season has arrived bringing us, ulcers, heart attacks, and genuine depression. But the ones I worry about the most are the children. Those who fail to get...

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There was an old “Hee Haw” routine, “it hurts when I do that. Well, don’t do that.” Sometimes you have to do that. Case in point. I am getting into bed last night and somehow turned wrong. T...

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Do you want to drive yourself crazy and just throw caution to the wind? Try online dating. Ever so often I get the insane idea to try to find ‘love’ or a facsimile thereof. I think I would hav...

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