I have to admit I am incompletely satisfied with my last post on the topic on what women want in a man. Long, discursive, and ultimately unsatisfying to me, I wondered if I had skirted the issue. Maybe what women want is not the issue. Maybe one needs to look at what women expect or […]
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What is a normal person? According to Collins Dictionary, “a normal person 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 of what is a normal person is
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Does life have meaning? I used to think it was a slam dunk it did. But now in the middle of the night, as I stare at the computer, I am wondering. And then, suddenly, I am not lying: the dog, who is sitting behind me as he usually does, with no reason reaches out
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Adjective: Picaresque: 1. relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. Noun: Picaresque novel: A novel relating the story of such a character. The picaresque is not a new thing. Famous novels in this vein include Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, and, the granddaddy of
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Actually, it’s not necessarily a Chinese proverb about wealth per se. It’s a quote that I found long ago in a poem in the Tao te Ching. This is a book of philosophical poetry, 2000 years old, translated from Chinese. Leo gave this book to me the year we met, along with Candide, by Voltaire,
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Bad Relationship: Just Say No? It’s hard to say no to a bad relationship. We’ve all got FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out. It’s hard to deal with. If you leave your relationship, you’ll be outside, woman. Alone on Friday night. No one to pick you up if you run out of gas, or to move
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