Category: Fluff
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The Greatest Gift….
I had a mentor in graduate school who beyond being one of the best analytic psychologists I have ever known, he was the first person in my life who made me feel like it was okay to be me. To be the feeling, curious, and a bit hyperactive person who I am and not feel like…
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Football, fantasy?…..
So my stepson plays fantasy football. Now I don’t know anything about regular football even less about fantasy varieties of the sport, but I love my stepson so I asked him how his game is going. I’m pretty sure fantasy football is like a video game, right? As soon as the question was out of…
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How a neurosis works
You wake up with a scratchy throat and wonder if you were snoring last night but by the end of the day you are sterilizing your house and swabbing the inside of your water bottle because you definitely have some sort of mold infection.
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A silent but constant thought
“All of these years of my service toward mankind has brought me nothing but assaults and humiliations.” Nikola Tesla There is a video trend going around social media of women “discovering” the men in their lives spend a lot of time thinking about the fall of Rome or the Roman Empire. I can honestly say…
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A distant memory
Sitting in my office waiting for my next patient, with Beethoven playing in my headset, I recall a time when I was 16, an aunt asked me how I came to like classical music. I suppose it was a bit unheard of in her world at the time. My response? “Loony Toons.” She said “oh…
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Out at the shop
Not sure I ever mentioned it before (here anyway), but I am a hobby woodworker. I can hold my own I suppose but I am nobody’s carpenter. Just another way for me to be creative is one reason I do it but mostly I look at what kinds of crap is being sold in stores…
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Day of thanks
I am thankful for my life and my heath, The love of my family and the partnership of my wife, I am thankful for the roof over my head and the food in my cabinets, I am thankful for all of you who choose to subscribe to this blog and to receive these words, I…
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A quandary
Anyone else amazed by how many “Black Friday*” sales are not only starting before Black Friday but ending before as well? *For my friends outside to the USofA Black Friday is traditionally the day after thanksgiving** and is historically the first day of the Christmas shopping season. **Thanksgiving is the holiday in the United States…