People sometimes ask me if I’m religious. There’s an easy dodge to that one: “I think I’m more spiritual than religious.” This is a good answer because people don’t usually want that explained to them, since it might cause them to have to argue about metaphysics., and not their closely-held religious beliefs.. Also, people occasionallyContinue reading “Let Me Take you Higher (to a Higher Power)”
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Writing’s On the Wall…?
Are you superstitious? Can a person be superstitious and not superstitious at the same time? I don’t really believe that “bad luck” is caused by things such as breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder, or having my path crossed by a black cat. And yet I assiduously avoid all of those things. If aContinue reading “Writing’s On the Wall…?”
Who Wants To Be Immortal?
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life? Well, don’t we all? Doesn’t the desire for longevity flow through te veins and neurons of almost all humans? Aren’t we fascinated by vampires and other immortal creatures for exactly that reason—we all want to live forever? Of course, our genes haveContinue reading “Who Wants To Be Immortal?”
Life Is An Atom
What are your biggest challenges? Now I could have started in ChatGPT and said, “Give me a metaphor for the challenges I’ll face in 2024,” but I already came up with that (in the shower, of course). I feel that I need to approach life in the new year thinking about the structure of anContinue reading “Life Is An Atom”
Small Change
What would you change about modern society? The title of my post today was also the title of my first novel. Or should I say “novel”? It was basically an autobiographical accounting of the last days of my time in high school and a little while after in to the post-graduation era where I foundContinue reading “Small Change”
Your Name is Hypokrites!
What bothers you and why? “What bothers you and why?” suggests an incredibly long blog response. So many things! From that fly buzzing around me on a warm summer day (the one I mentioned to my Intro to Theatre students, that would set me off to help me understand the anger of a killer!!) toContinue reading “Your Name is Hypokrites!”
Certainties…
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain. When I was growing up, people commonly proclaimed two things: 1) Never talk about politics or religion. 2) The only things certain are death and taxes. Now we are constantly subjected to people’s religious and political views. That may be the only certainty that I canContinue reading “Certainties…”
Gratitude
How do you express your gratitude? This prompt raises an interesting point for me. Not in how I express my gratitude, because I think I do it with sincere feeling, but the whole idea of why we do things for other people. In my view of history (and so this might just be from myContinue reading “Gratitude”
…What?
How important is spirituality in your life? I grew up in the Catholic Church. And though I said, in my oft-cited (by me) memoir, Immaculate Misconceptions: Tales of Catholic School, “Once a Catholic, always a Catholic,” I don’t really believe that. Oh, sure, I still twitch when I see a priest collar or a nun,Continue reading “…What?”
A Good Life?
What are the most important things needed to live a good life? I’m confused by today’s prompt. What exactly does it mean, “to live a good life”? Is that a morally good existence? Is it a happy, and therefore good, life? Does it mean a satisfied life, free of want and care? There are someContinue reading “A Good Life?”
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