Advice is context-relative

Profile 1: A person with a failed marriage, an unwanted child, and many regrets of time wasted and relationships lost. Profile 2: A person in a successful relationship, in a career that gives them time and challenges, facing future obstacles,…

My Once Best and Worst Case Scenarios

It all started with something my propaganda professor Frank Thayer said a long time ago: Life doesn’t turn out the best-possible way you could imagine.  It also doesn’t turn out the worst way.  It’s usually something in between. That scared…

How to find Happiness

From a longitudinal study of happiness: At the bottom of the pile are the unhealthiest, or “psychotic,” adaptations—like paranoia, hallucination, or megalomania—which, while they can serve to make reality tolerable for the person employing them, seem crazy to anyone else.…

Personality Crushes

Have you ever met one of those people that you just can’t get enough of?  They may not be the funniest or the smartest or the most charming, but you’re always excited when you see them and always enjoy talking…

SPAM

The SPAM-bots are out en masse.  I’m seriously considering turning off comments.  I hate it when other places do that, but….  I seriously have to delete comments every day. So… what do you think?

So I set my face on fire today

So I set my face on fire today.  Then Homer Simpson taught me a valuable lesson.  Let me back up. It was my shave day and I had to go meet some friends at a local burrito establishment.  Naturally, I…