Wellbeing

The day of days

It’s mostly cloudy with a chance of rain… and so am I. A late season cold front is on the move – gifting us with one more shot at postcard weather. “Cold” front may be a little too generous; it may be more of a “not so damn hot” front. I’ve used this space to profess my love of rainy days, but I wish it’d go ahead and rain already. It’s…
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Lines, everywhere LINES!

There have been whole days that I don’t think about this site. Hard to believe, eh? When I do, I sometimes consider putting it out of its misery. Lately I’ve been hanging out with my creativity at the bottom of a deep, dark, depressing, and very dry well. If that isn’t enough to turn me from writing, I don’t know what is. Don’t worry, I don’t give up that…
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Wellbeing

Letting my fingers do the talking

Stop reading right now. There’s no reason to read this, unless you really hate yourself. You’ve been warned. If you lookup “self destructive behavior” you will find a blank staring picture of me. It’s the look I assume after staying up half the night staring into oblivion, avoiding the sleep that will deliver me all too quickly to the horrifying place you know as…
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Wellbeing

Pull up a couch, the Doctor is in

(This entry was conceived and written a couple of weeks ago, but not posted until now.) I’ve been in this funk for the last 34 years or so… and I don’t mean I’ve been surrounded by the stink of tobacco (I had to dig deep into my dictionary for that one). Who knows, maybe tomorrow will be merely mediocre. What’s the reason for my blue mood? It’s hard to talk…
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Wellbeing

Focus - schmocus

You must be familiar with the “working hard, getting nothing done” phenomenon. Approximately 99.92 percent of the working, adult population will suffer this phenomenon at some point during the average work-day. I’ll bet you didn’t know that, along with being a noted Physicist, Newton also dabbled in the social sciences. One of his self proclaimed “Adapted Laws of…
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SportsWellbeing

Cold snap

Colds, illness and allergies are running rampant through the Kauffman Household (v 2.2.1). There’s a flip side to a saying… “Anything that doesn’t make you stronger will only kill you.” Ah, now that’s a relief. Oh, this is also the time of year when all of the optimism of spring training… is shattered by terrible D-Rays pitching. With a couple of…
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Wellbeing

Looks like we’ve wasted another perfectly good week off

I had big plans for this week. I think I may have shared my plans with all of you. Come on, you remember… I had planned to do nothing this week. “So John, is there any thing you need at Home Depot?” Cheryl asks me last Friday night. “Ah, no. Should I need something at Home Depot?” I reply. “Silly, silly boy; weren’t you going to do Beth’s floor this…
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Wellbeing

And there was coffee, and it was good

There’s something you should know about the week I’m having. I’m happy to report that all systems are functioning. The eldest of my progeny has been getting up in the morning and getting ready for school, which may seem trivial, but is actuality no small feat. Actually, it’s not unlike an 18, extra wide… something with a hard, slippery sole if you have it. The…
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CoffeeWellbeing

Hey, did someone mention coffee?

Drinking coffee is like riding a bike… the longer you go without the bigger kick in the pants you get when you start back up. (I’ll bet you didn’t see that analogy coming.) It goes without saying that the energy level at coffee drinking start up is inversely proportional to bike riding start up, but I hope you still get my point. (It’s a tolerance thing.) Today was my first…
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Wellbeing

A day in the life… in hell

We don’t pull any punches on this site baby! We may embellish a few, or just plain make them up, but nothing gets pulled in MY HOUSE! I am of course not talking literally about my physical place of residence… a recent gallop poll of married Americans suggests that the average couple, married 5 years or longer, pulls approximately 154.2 out of an average 155 potential…
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