I just learned that folks have been making donations via GoFundMe that, for some reason, GoFundMe never told me about. GoFundMe no longer...

Miscellaneous notes about accepting bad feelings. [Second in a series.] One afternoon some years back, I hooked up with my bud Brian...

Saint Benedict ran a monastery. He ran into the problem that many monks wanted to spend all their time praying and studying, and not do...

“According to the Harvard Business Review and various studies , the most significant cause of workplace unhappiness isn’t salary or...

Reasons to seek prosperity At any given moment, it may help me to have an actual reason to seek prosperity.  As my moods and POV change...

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came...

This article by Nick Morrison originally appeared in Forbes on 11/30/16, but for some reason is almost impossible to access now.  I...

At age 12, Walt Manis had a vision that he would someday be a father, and have a little girl, and name her Chloe. He eventually married a...

From diary for Thursday, March 20, 2017: Throughout suppertime, contemplated possible FB post about racial prejudice, and wound up...

(A message I sent family on 26 April 2006.) Disease, or sin? To the best of my knowledge, the “disease theory of alcoholism” began with...

If at all possible, never, ever, allow yourself to become completely jobless.  My doing that was the worst financial decision I’ve every...

Miscellaneous notes about accepting bad feelings. [First in a series.] Vladimir Putin purportedly has a video of Donald Trump directing...

But for the racial aspect, the Trayvon Martin case would not be noticed. I admit being less concerned about him than about the dozens of...

I happened upon this completely by accident.  Quite a few of the suggestions echo things I’ve been saying for a long time.  I note...

Transcribed from my diary for Sunday 2017-03-12, for now I am intentionally leaving this unfinished. Rough day at BK.  I may not have the...

(Originally posted 11/25/13 .) 11/13/13 I googled “Ted Williams the homeless blogger” to see if “ First of all … ” would appear. I didn’t...

“During the interview with Cernovich, the 60 Minutes team realized that the very definitions of words like ‘true’ and ‘false’ were not...

As of 2017-02-27, this is a placeholder for notes for a discussion of these things, that may be worked into an actual post either before...

(Originally posted 11/23/13 .) Steve Hartman’s “On the Road” segment for the CBS Evening News , 11/01/13: Kan. prisoners get the granny...

Since I have reason to believe a few completely new people may be visiting today,let me recommend in particular a really good, old post I...