The Fragility of Health

One of my favorite and most often-quoted poems was written by Richard Brautigan and included in his beautifully-titled collection, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork. I can’t find my copy at present so I will have to rely on my fragile memory to recall it. Please forgive any errors, and I put XX since I don’tContinue reading “The Fragility of Health”

I’m Proud To Be…

What are you most proud of in your life? This is an interesting prompt, and one that I could get very long-winded with, making lists of all kinds of things. But, as I often quote, brevity is the soul of wit, and I want this to be a witty (though not funny, just insightful) post.Continue reading “I’m Proud To Be…”

Skydiving

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. There are few guarantees in this life. They say Death and Taxes are the main ones, and you can finagle the latter depending on where you live. Cheating Death is a little more difficult. Since I’m not an extreme risk-taker, skydiving has neverContinue reading “Skydiving”

Decisions, Decisions

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. I’d say I’ve never been very adventurous…until this century. I usually played it safe with investments, job moves, and life decisions. Putting off having a child until achieving some measure of financial solvency and health insurance probably delayed the process tooContinue reading “Decisions, Decisions”