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Feb
25

Did I Do The Right Thing?

Did I Do The Right Thing? I wanted to call this “Guilt, Shame, Duty, and Responsibility” but I was thinking about a personal conundrum and not the entire spectrum of the guilt and responsibility of the human race! Although I wonder if we don’t look at such questions in the broad terms rather than the specific circumstances of life? Usually, looking at the broad terms tends to tempt us to dismiss our own...
Nov
30

Another True Confession Time

Another True Confession Time Here I am, waiting on God. I do that quite a bit. Once, I found it a virtuous thing; at the moment I find it the only alternative. What I really want to do, it seems, is give up. Just give up. I am tired of trying to fight the good fight and even when, or maybe especially when, I seem to make progress in seeing light…especially light for and within my family…. all the light seems to go out....
Apr
15

Returning to True Confessional

I used to use my personal blog for a lot of true confessions back in the day. The day when I was one of the few to have a “blog”, not many I met even knew what blogging was. I was also anonymous. Although always using my real first name, I doubt that anyone who knew me read anything I wrote… and I liked that. I ‘ve never allowed certain information to be published when I thought it...
Aug
27

Confession: I’ve Always Been A Little Stupid

It is true. And now that I am at the last few chapters of life, I am purposely so. Let me explain. I’ve always been a little stupid about people, about their motivations and intentions, and I tend to trust people. So as life went along with the hard knocks that such trust invites, I developed an overall policy of general caution, a tendency to say “no” “hands off”, to protect...
Oct
20

Wind Power: surprise, surprise

…as Gomer Pyle would’ve said. A Texas Surprise | www.markdroberts.com I discovered, even more to my surprise, that Texas gets more electricity from wind than any other state, almost doubling the amount of wind-power generated in California. Moreover, Texas has the largest windfarm in the...
Nov
6

Resolutions Update

Why Your Plans Fail – lifehack.org People are notoriously bad at planning. The worst part is, we don’t even know it. One psychological study conducted asked students to predict when they expected to complete an assignment, almost none gave enough time. Other looks into financial analysts show that few can consistently beat the market. The real problem is that these planning failures aren’t...
Oct
17

Backsliding Into My Vice

Small to you, maybe, but a big stumbler for me…given how much grief it causes me: putting off the small byte for the big picture extravaganza. I haven’t been blogging much because I don’t have time for the big, involved, and complicated posts I have in mind. And so, all the things that could be done remain undone, with interesting little tidbits being denied so that I can, will, might,...
Oct
3

Insane Drummers: more on giftedness

This is a bit of my story on why the topic of adult giftedness so hooked me. The title is borrowed from Laura Young, who put it so succinctly: “What happened to them once they hit adulthood? Well, it turns out, a lot of them have felt a bit out of step with their peers and have been fluctuating between trying to force themselves to be normal by shutting themselves down and berating...
Sep
6

I am afraid of eBay

True confession. Really, I am afraid of trying something new, and worried about failure. My usual way of coping with that is to research like a crazy woman…. reading, thinking, preparing, doing everything in my power to control the unknown. The unknown of eBay…segue in haunting music…. umm the X-files theme…. How silly is that? But I need desperately to de-clutter and to learn how...
Jul
5

True (grit) Confessions

[this is all abstract theorizing and playing around with thoughts- I am not looking at scripture and trying to make theological statements with this....] I am writing on gender once again over at Intellectuelle. It needs to be a topic to pursue, but even though I am strongly egalitarian in some many ways, I have to confess to you that I am generally appalled by women ministers. So much so, and this based...
Mar
26

Peek into the Confessional

I tend to talk of troubles in a oblique and veiled manner. I don’t mean to exactly, but I have not resolved the personal conflict of publishing information about other people. Even when you don’t name name, still… people who know you can figure who it is you are speaking of, and I try to remain sensitive to the airing of matters that could be harmful, even if it seems for public good....
Jan
29

Resolution Check-in

It is the end of the first month. So, how am I doing so far? Let’s see…what were my resolutions, exactly? get healthier and lose weight reread ‘Boundaries’ by Cloud and Townsend It is time to cultivate relationships that bear good fruit. more time into my garden My children will receive the first cut of my time. Ok. #1… I have been regular(3x weekly) about going to Curves all month....
Dec
6

Struggle

I’m surprised sometimes that I struggle so much with things , and others don’t seem to. Especially when they speak of “emotional health” or the proper way to “get along with people”, and all the other similar topics. From where I sit, though, the vast majority of the ones who qualify under the layered demands of what is defined as maturity of some sort are very often...
Nov
14

In the mood for sadness

That’s how I find myself sometimes…today. This time of year often brings it on, a comfortable if not comforting melancholy, perusing the whys and wherefores of things that have gone worng, or are steeped in inevitable futility. It is in these times I drift into uncommitted conversations with those I know I will pique with probing questions- not always pleasantly. I do it on purpose I...
Aug
16

I Bought One

I finally did it. I’ve been making websites,etc. since about 1998 or so and I always experimented around and used free website hosting, etc. Well. Today I bought a domain name and I am trying to figure things out for moving my “old but good” website to its own domain. My blogs will stay “as is” for awhile, perhaps indefinitely. I feel like a little girl. sort of confused with...

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