Category: Living

  • A Sisyphean Reflection

    A Sisyphean Reflection

    This may seem counterintuitive, but I don’t like to stand out in a crowd.  I’d much rather just blend in, be one of the guys, and enjoy a kind of social anonymity.  I don’t want to be in charge of the thing, the expert on…, or the guy who knows the answer.  But life has…

  • I am not weird

    I am not weird

    For years, I thought I was weird. You see, I go to bed between 9 and 10 o’clock in the evening, wake up in the middle of the night (actually the early morning – between 1 and 2 am), I am wide awake till roughly 4 am, and then I go back to bed and…

  • How are you celebrating DOGust?

    How are you celebrating DOGust?

    Ever heard someone refer to their dog as their “fur baby” and thought it just a figure of speech? Research has shown that when a mother stares into her baby’s eyes, the baby’s levels of the “feel good” hormone oxytocin rise, which causes the infant to stare back into its mother’s eyes, which causes the…

  • What do you do for fun?

    What do you do for fun?

    I want to tell you about this new hobby I’ve discovered.  It’s LIVE webcams.  First, a little background. One of our Stonewall Gardens’ residents, who is relatively new, found herself sitting at my table in the dining room recently, and struck up a friendly conversation.  As a veteran, with nine years under my belt here,…