DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOY AND HAPPINESS There’s a difference between joy and happiness. Yep. At least I think so. At my seasonal age, in my situation-a retired widower, I find myself kind of making things up as I go. Like if I’m delivering Easter eggs to my grandchildren-er-any children for that matter, in the early morning, I probably should dress up like the Easter Bunny. Maybe a version of the Easter Bunny who might have served time in prison or did... Read more
HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? Has this ever happened to you? Did you ever have an epiphany you are really the age you are and not that twenty-three-year-old, ten percent body fat, six-minute miler with a propensity for math and language, the guy or gal people laughed with, bought drinks for, and just wanted to be around? Aside from most of that being a fabrication for myself, I discovered this within the past year—or maybe it was two? IT... Read more
WHAT’S WITH ALL THE DIETS? What’s with the ketosis diet? I couldn’t even spell the word without Google. Is that a trade name or a scientific name? I think there should be a contest where people name, document, list the diets they have been on, heard about, and eventually failed over their lives. All of them. Like the Birch Bark Diet or the Smoked Oysters and Kale Diet, or the ever and always effective- Air and Ice Water Diet. This... Read more
Welcome! Come on in and pull up a seat. Come take a calm walk through our collective minds with me while maybe standing in line at the grocery checkout counter and you have enough time to read this until the woman with twenty-three items in the fifteen-item lane is done, but you will need to visualize yourself sitting down. Grocery stores frown on people sitting in the aisle at the checkout counter. The last thing you need right now…. If... Read more
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