If your fellow workers smoke and take simultaneous smoking breaks yet never include you, don’t take it personally. It isn’t about you – it’s about the activity. It’s not a social club. If they all rode bicycles during their breaks and you didn’t … would you feel hurt they didn’t ask you if you wanted [...]
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Where There’s Smoke
Posted in Culture, Life, Random Thoughts, tagged About Me, Cigarettes, Culture, Friends, Friendship, Life, Networking, People, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Smoke, Smoke Breaks, Smoking, Work on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Storytellers
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Life, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged Aged, Culture, Friends, Friendship, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Life, Old People, Oral History, People, Random Thoughts, Relationships on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oral histories are incredibly valuable. It is certainly more valuable to hear an eyewitness account instead of reading a historical document filled with “and then he said that she did …” History is written by gossips. I think that’s one of the most invaluable benefits of caring for our aged. We not only hear what [...]
Swollen Beyond Recognition
Posted in Culture, Life, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged Relationships, Friendship, Random Thoughts, Culture, Male Point of View, Life, Couples, Men & Women, Dating, Friends, Courtship, Sex, Male Behavior, Couple, Romance, People on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The root of the word “infatuation” is fat. Fat = swollen /out of proportion. Infatuation is when affection is swollen out of proportion. And then the emotion ceases to be about the objective and is subjective. Unfortunately for both parties, the subject becomes self. The object becomes aware of his/her influence on others. The infatuated [...]
Guidance
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Life, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged Culture, Friends, Friendship, Life, People, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Spirituality on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think often in life we stop ourselves from doing the right thing or the necessary thing that would benefit our fellow man because we make the situation about ourselves. And it isn’t. All situations aren’t about us. I think it would be kinder to guide people toward a solution than to take the path [...]
Random Thoughts
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Friendship, Humor, Life, Male Point of View, Music, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Whimsical, tagged Baby Boomers, Couple, Couples, Culture, Friends, Friendship, Life, Male Behavior, Male Point of View, Marriage, Men & Women, Men vs Women, People, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Romance, Sex, Spirituality on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. If you and your kid are checking the mail to see whose social security check comes first? It’s time he moved.
2. I’m turned off by a woman who only sees life from a feminist point of view. I like women who see the world above the waist.
3. “Get therapy” is a condescending and [...]
It’s All Talk
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Life, Male Point of View, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged Communication, Couple, Couples, Friends, Friendship, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationships, Life, Male Behavior, Male Point of View, Men & Women, Men vs Women, Networking, People, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Talk on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Men tend to hold each other to each word. A man will say to another man, “what did you just say?” because he wants to make sure he understood each word. He listens for infractions to his pride or attractions to his interests. Men don’t care why it was said. They care that it was [...]
Recollections
Posted in Life, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged About Me, Collecting, Collections, Ex-Girlfriends, Friends, Friendship, Life, Male Point of View, Memories, Men & Women, People, Personal, Photographs, Random Thoughts, Relationships on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I collect words. I read them or I hear them and I absorb them. They’re the only things I collect.
As a boy I collected baseball cards and road maps and beer cans. In my 20s and 30s I went through a collection of really bad women.
But we live, we learn, and then we add [...]
Tastes & Preferences
Posted in Friendship, Life, Male Point of View, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Roman Catholicism, tagged Personal, Relationships, Friendship, Random Thoughts, Culture, Roman Catholicism, Male Point of View, Life, Couples, Men & Women, Dating, Friends, Courtship, Romance, Opinion, People, About Me, Kissing, Kisses, Tastes & Preferences on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love baby giggles.
I love dipping my fingers in the Holy Water font.
I love the feel of corduroy trousers on a crisp autumnal morning.
I love singing along.
I love laughing about women with my best buddy.
I love words.
I love seeing the synchronicity of Divinity and being reminded that God’s there and He remembers that I’m here.
I [...]
Utter Mistakes
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Personal, Relationships, tagged About Me, Communication, Couples, Courtship, Culture, Dating, Friends, Friendship, Life, People, Personal, Relationships on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When am I the MOST candid?
When I bend my knee, bow my head, clasp my hands, and confess my sins before my God.
Gush, seep, burst, blurt – nice verbs to pronounce but not proper to place in a pronounced place in a relationship. It’s not a question of concealment; it’s the wisdom of proportion. Need [...]
Attraction
Posted in Culture, Personal, Relationships, tagged About Me, Courtship, Culture, Dating, Friends, Friendship, Humor, Life, Male Behavior, Men & Women, Men vs Women, People, Personal, Relationships, Romance on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a beer last week with a buddy from high school. He said to me, “you’re not that good looking bro. How do you get all the women?” And after I swallowed my pride and the sting of the insult subsided, I told him. I move from personable to personal at the introduction. I [...]
Distance & Degrees
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships, tagged About Me, Baby Boomers, Culture, Friends, Friendship, Life, Male Behavior, Male Point of View, People, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve reached the age when I’m addressed as “sir.” Ok, I reached that age a number of years ago. I’ve just reached the realization that I should be called sir and that’s why I’m addressing this topic.
Many people my age are offended by the use of a formal greeting. It’s not offensive to me so [...]
Hope Full
Posted in Personal, Relationships, tagged About Me, Courtship, Culture, Dating, Friends, Friendship, Life, People, Personal, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Spirituality on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever someone disappoints me – and it’s often because I usually see moisture in the midst of aridity – I close my eyes and say to myself, “how could you be so goddamned stupid!” And then I vow to never hope again.
And then I forget.
I offer my hand to someone new. Because I’m always [...]
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