Doing Depression Right
Previous post on weight & health: No change Working with an NRT practitioner since 2016 has taught me that there are endless ways our health can be messed up. We develop physical problems and/or inherit them from our parents, grandparents and ancestral line. We...
Used to hate queasy-cams
goddamn queasy-cam Cloverfield For 33 years I’ve gotten motion sickness when I watch movies filmed in the “queasy-cam” style (hand-held camera). Years ago, while watching The Blair Witch Project in the theater, I had to run to the women’s room to fully throw up, and...
Please Put Your Damn Cell Phone Away
Maybe I’m just old. So please respect old people by not looking at your phone!
Blog Oratory
A friend said he likes to listen to content instead of read it, so I made a video of myself reading my post, "Stop talking about INTENTION." If you want to hear me read my writing, here it is. This video is 3:02 (three minutes and two seconds) long. Apparently I make...
Naked Racism
A Mexican-American woman and a Black woman try to relax with a gym workout. Then this white woman…
No Change
Previous post on weight & health: I'm going for effortless weight loss No change. No change at all...discouragement..disgust...I'm the fattest I've ever been. Blah, blah, blah. (But wait -- things did change after I posted this! Read this!)
Michael Jackson
There's this thing we do when we hear about the worst of human behavior. We're shocked and disbelieving and then we distance ourselves from the act by wondering what kind of monster does such a thing. We feel certain that neither we nor anyone we know could ever do...
Please, American White Women
The open letter technique is a clichéd way to address a challenging topic and when I see a writer begin with "Dear Democratic Party" or "Dear President Trump" I think, "If you really want to address those people, why post your letter here?" But I'm doing it because...
Stop Talking about INTENTION
When a white person apologizes for having been racially offensive, they often say it wasn't their intention to do that and they didn't intend it to come out that way and they had no intention of offending anyone and it wasn't their intention to upset people. Why do...
“Spiritual But Not Religious”
The phrase "spiritual but not religious" isn't new. It's been around for decades and when I first encountered it, I considered myself spiritual but not religious. It was the late 1990's and I was part of Unity in Chicago. The Unity Church was co-founded by Charles...
Perseverance
Thank you to David Parker for this topic: perseverance. I'd say there are two kinds of perseverance which is officially defined as "the continued effort to achieve despite difficulties." One kind is consciously refusing to give up because you believe you will...
How to End a Friendship
Also: How to make friends, part 1 How to make friends, part 2 How to make friends, part 3 How to maintain a friendship Sometimes -- even if you've been good friends in the past -- it's time to end a friendship. On TV friendships often end because one person stole...