I was making coffee this morning and I was suddenly struck by this thought: how can there be good if there is no evil? This question of whether there is evil has been bothering me. I’m sure everyone knows about the initiative to frame discussions in terms of “my truth” and the idea that everyone’s […]
I was minding my own business reading a surf blog when suddenly the author interjected negative sentiments about yoga, “a holistic discipline that combines physical postures and ethical principles to promote physical and spiritual well-being. It does very few of these things in my experience except breed a superior minded person with stretched out tendons.”
A few months back I reflected on this question: is being smart an advantage for dating? Rob Henderson has said that it is: I’m basically smart, aren’t you? You’re reading for fun, that makes me think that you’re above average in intelligence. Less intelligent people are watching videos. But is it possible: Being smart an
There are some studios that have rules, such as “instructors only in the first row …
We stayed late at school tonight, Thursday, for conferences and I drove home in the dark. I mused over the fact that the custodian had told me snow was coming. I knew I needed to pull the basil out of the ground before it froze. And I remembered that the death of my father was
I have been considering this year sending a message to all and sundry which says Dear Family and Friends if you have a problem with something I have done could you please refrain from letting me know about it in a text message? Could you please be a Man/Woman/ Decline-to-State and call me up and
Visiting Dinosaur National Monument was worth doing: the petroglyphs, secret canyons, the desert itself drew me. I admit I was scared…for one thing I hadn’t camped in years and years. But there was more. This was the first such trip in a long time where I would be in charge. The family had visited before,
Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain
I have to admit I am incompletely satisfied with a post I just read on “what women want in a man.” Long, discursive, and ultimately unsatisfying to me, I wondered if the author had skirted the issue. Maybe what women want is not the issue. Maybe one needs to look at what women expect or
What is a normal person? You might begin by saying a regular or normal person would be one who has no serious physical or mental health problems. But it’s so much more than that. Because there are so many things in which you could be normal. Or abnormal. Then there’s the fact that the question
