Archive for the 'life' Category
Well Whaddya Know!
I think we may be getting to the end of the saga surrounding my sister, who sent me an email this morning. As regular readers may remember, my parents, especially my father, have been pushing me to make-up with my sister, and allow her into my house without an apology for previous egregious behavior. [...]
Read More..>>A Resolution
A post or two ago I went on about the stress headache.
I am really happy to say that the static with my housemate seems to be, for the moment, resolved, and in a totally constructive way.
I know that in person and on line I can come across as a high stress person with a hair [...]
The Shitz
I had an incredibly busy weekend, and I am very happy that I have Columbus Day off to recuperate.
Where to start? On Thursday, as part of Domestic Violence Month, I had to work a fundraiser in Chestnut Hill from 5:00-8:00 PM, after which I headed up to Doylestown where Pete Wroblewski throws a bluegrass [...]
Biblical
It simply doesn’t stop when it comes to the debate over my sister.
If you’ve dropped by comments, you probably saw my father objecting to my two pieces about the the topic.
Well there I was assuming we had been having a private conversation about a delicate family matter and there it is plastered all over the [...]
Boundaries
My sister and I haven’t really spoken since March 2005. She was visiting Philadelphia around the same time Sam was paying a visit, while Melissa and I were still together. I was still unemployed for the most part, accepting any temp job that came my way. As it happened, I was working [...]
Read More..>>Hope 2
Adding to my point about my lack of hope and faith, I’m reminded of a quote by Alan Watts, which I’ll paraphrase here:
Hope is that which allows you to put off indefinitely what you should be doing today.
I do not hope, for example, that global warming will be solved tomorrow. It will NOT be [...]
On Nothing
I think I really shocked my friend Alex last night when I conceded that I don’t believe in anything, and I am utterly faithless in both God (which doesn’t exist) and humanity (which doesn’t deserve to exist). You’re born, you live about 80 years, you die. End of story. No afterlife.
“You mean you [...]
Framing
I’ve been slowly reading Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of An Elephant”, a book about political framing. I haven’t finished the book, and probably won’t, and so I am unprepared to discuss whether the book makes valid arguments about politics or… well, about arguing. What I’ve read so far is interesting. Discussing the idea [...]
Read More..>>How My Mind Works
I was at the Grey Lodge in the Mayfair section of Northeast Philadelphia last Friday for Friday the Firkenteenth, when the lodge taps gazillions of firkens of high quality, high-potency local and micro-brewed beers, sitting at a table with Christina and talking with a complete stranger, an older guy, probably around fifty. He was [...]
Read More..>>Mensch
In my family, my mom was typically the one who smacked first and asked questions later. My father’s method of punishment was, at least to my mind, far far worse: an interminable lecture that would end with the guilty party being told to commit to some introspection. God almighty, how I wished the [...]
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