I Was Just Thinkin'
digitalzen
- Location
- Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
- Birthday
- September 25
- Title
- Human, being
- Bio
- I used to describe myself by what I did, not by who I was -- because I had no idea.
In the process of trying to find out, I've been a lifeguard, pilot, police officer, teacher, drunk, security guard, chauffeur, drug lab tech, detox tech, mental health tech and addiction counselor. I now describe myself as a recovering human, and what I do seems to matter less and less.
I share, with my wife of almost 30 years, two black cats, two lovely daughters and wonderful sons in law, one granddaughter (who is beautiful, like her mom, and obnoxiously precocious, like grandpa), a raft of wonderful friends and relatives, an intense interest in addiction treatment and recovery, and a conviction that the only things we can change are ourselves, and our skills at the small services we are able to offer to others.
MY RECENT POSTS
- That thing about "the
unexamined life" could be true
August 11, 2010 11:03AM - Iconoclasm and Addiction
July 13, 2010 10:53AM - May Sucks!
May 13, 2010 11:19AM - The Cedar Key Caper
May 12, 2010 10:43AM - Delta Nights
March 13, 2010 08:36PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Not be be argumentative,
because I agree with most of
what
you wrote, I need to
s…”
May 11, 2012 09:40PM - “Your blog and Murr's are
the only two that I invariably
read
out loud to my
wife.…”
October 08, 2011 11:03PM - “That should read
"partially-used pads of
post-its. I'm
not so cheap
that I r…”
August 22, 2011 11:49AM - “Good luck with that. I
do it about every six months,
and it
lasts about three
wee…”
August 22, 2011 11:45AM - “Did Don kill you
softly?”
August 03, 2011 10:11AM
That thing about "the unexamined life" could be true
I run across people, on the Web and elsewhere, who seem directionless. They don’t seem engaged with their lives. Some seem simply to exist passively, with little pleasure and no discernible joy. Others flail around at this and that, become intrigued or outraged
… Read full post »Iconoclasm and Addiction
Ms. Lindsay Lohan has been much in the news today, and I’ve had several conversations about her, both in person and online. Two things that they all seem to have had in common was (a.) contempt
… Read full post »May Sucks!
May sucks. It's going to suck for the rest of my life, and
those of quite a few people I love. May 29th especially
sucks. It's the day my new granddaughter Kathy decided to
learn if she could fly.
My daughter Tammy waited until she was 38 to get… Read full post »
The Cedar Key Caper
They say that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. They're right.
Back in the day, I used to teach flying and fly a lot of charters around Florida and the Caribbean. One of
Delta Nights
This is a work of fiction. The writer does not claim to have been there or done that, and even if he had it would have been nearly a half-century ago and details would be fading. So cut him some slack, OK?
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The King and the King of Pop had a good deal more in common than musical innovation.
Elvis, son of an unsuccessful Mississippi sharecropper, came from hard times and rose above them. He reinvented popular music by successfully combining the three main aspects of American music tradition: mounta… Read full post »
Swine Flu -- No Need To Panic
Hysteria has already begun with the recent news of the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico, the US and Canada. I have spoken to people who say that they intend to wear face masks in public as soon as a case of the flu has been reported in our state. Others have… Read full post »
Let's Knock Off The P.C.B.S.
I started off as a middle-of-the-road Republican, and switched to the Democratic party in the Gingrich era because I couldn’t stand the embarrassment any longer. Since then I’ve swung even farther left, as my common sense has slowly beaten the redneck into submission. I’d
Occasionally the good guys win one...
Well, occasionally.
I loved the way Bloggo equated himself with all the "other people who have lost their jobs," and called his ouster "un-American." (What, pray tell, is more American than the impeachment process? Indicted by one body, and tried by another. I always thought that wa… Read full post »
Readin', Writin' and Other Stuff
I grew up on a farm about seven miles from the little town of Lake Placid, Florida which, at that time, probably had a population of about a thousand, tops. My brother, 13 years older, had 14 people in his graduating class, so that will give you a rough
The Good Old Days Weren't Always Good...
About once a month I get one of those saccharine emails that I’m supposed to forward to everyone I know, delineating all the good things we had when my generation was kids. How sweet the hindsight! How short the memory — or, perhaps, how
Atheists Are Just As Boring As Other Religious Nuts
I'm agnostic -- in the literal sense of the word, not some nuanced, semanticized popular interpretation. I believe that we cannot know if there is a god, and my inclination is in the direction of a simple "Uh-uh." If I am to be intellectually rigorous, however, I have to admit that… Read full post »
And so it begins...
Rush L. and his besotted group of unthinking syncophants have already begun their lies and rhetoric, and the “n-word” emails have begun to circulate.
I’m nipping it in the bud. Each correspondent gets one answer indicating my feelings about the matter, and if there&rsq… Read full post »
Black Cats
I'm sitting here with my best non-human buddy, Frbl, on my lap -- red-eyed, still sniffly, and joking with Frb that he might be able to get a job in the cabinet because now there's another black cat running the show in Washington.
I'm joking with a cat because this experience… Read full post »
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