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Category Archives: Personality
Attraction on the Wrong Side of the Tracks
“You’re so sexy when you’re angry!” That was the quote from the romantic comedy. I think I’ve seen that same basic scene in dozens of movies and TV shows. Usually the ones where there is the whole love-hate theme going … Continue reading
The Dreaded Butter Loop
I’m an awful shopper. I often have to be forced to shop for even the most bare essentials. When I do shop, I can only shop for a little while. I am usually drained when I’m done. For the … Continue reading
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Tagged Butter, cooking, diet, endless loops, Grocery store, neurotic, shopping, software
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Romantic Reanimation
Whether I was born a romantic is hard to say. I am pretty sure I knew this by the time I was five. How I knew I could not say since the word “romantic” had surely not entered my vocabulary … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Frankenstein, idyllic, John Keats, Keats, Romance, romantic, Romanticism, shelley, Victor Frankenstein
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Just One Little Thing
It was awful. The character’s accent. It was so bad it ruined the whole movie. To be fair, I know accents are not easy. Especially in English language movies whose characters would not be actually speaking English. But the … Continue reading
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Tagged accents, character, character actor, Film, flaws, Humor, letting go, simple pleasures
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The Truth, She Hurts
Self-referentiality. While one can hardly avoid it when writing a blog about one’s thoughts, I usually try to avoid writing about writing. And unless it’s a self-help article on writing, I don’t like to read writers writing about being a … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Personality
Tagged David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Margaret Mitchell, Oracle, self-referential, Writing
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Fueling Change with Chocolate
Habits require rewards. Incentives to engage in the habit, good habits. That’s what I learned from the book “The Power of Habit.” So I didn’t make this stuff up. Being a get-to-the-point kind of guy, I looked at the three … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, habit, productivity, reward, routines
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The Moment Left in the Cold
She knows it’s cold. The snow is falling and the wind is blowing. She is bundled head to toe in good winter gear. Except for her hands. Her hands are bare. They must be bare. She needs her electrically-charged hands … Continue reading
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Tagged being in the moment, Bicycle, Electric sheep, perambulation, smart phone, Snow, Technology
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All These Little Things
Many people have giving me this advice: Take pleasure in the little things. I think it is good advice. I try to follow it. I find it’s profound advice about things that are not often in themselves particularly profound. You … Continue reading
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Tagged being right, ego, little things, Pablo Picasso, Pleasure
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Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet, I‘m Hunting Solitude
Elusive. That’s what solitude can be. We all need some solitude. Per psychologists solitude is a state of being alone without being lonely and is important for us to be able to explore our inner workings What exactly constitutes being … Continue reading
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Tagged alone, in the moment, Loneliness, Solitary, Solitude
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Finding Your Gut..Instinct
Really, you’re just figuring this out now, I thought as I read an article in the Washington Post called “Too Much of Too Little.” The article focuses on the highly processed and low nutrition diet often consumed by those on … Continue reading
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Tagged gut instinct, gut instincts, Health, instinct, intuition, Obesity, trust
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Fortress of Dissolitude 