Tag Archives: self-help

Afternoon Poem, August 16, 2018

Only a glimpse, between house and garage Of the swingset that stands on the Jones’s back lawn I drove by slowly on this bright afternoon And saw the empty swing rocking high As if someone had just leapt from it … Continue reading

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Morning Poem, July 18, 2018

    In this time before the day One quiet spot to think and pray Too soon it all will fade away In work and worry unallayed

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Evening Post, May 3, 2018

Readers; I am begging your indulgence here.  Tonight’s post has in it some of the sentences, even some of the paragraphs of last night’s post.  I don’t mean to bore you, but as I have been saying all along, these … Continue reading

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Evening Post, May 2, 2018

Readers;  Here is more work on the novel-in-progress.  This bit is about the protagonist’s relationship with another character in the story as that relationship was born in high school. I’ve posted bits of this before, but the long middle of … Continue reading

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Book Review: 12 Rules for Life

I have just finished reading Jordan Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and I feel like I have been in a fight. But it’s a good fight.  The very kind of fight we long for if … Continue reading

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Music to His Ears

It had already been a long day.   A case I thought I had settled blew up again.  My star witness gave a statement to the defense.  I don’t know why and everybody in the office seemed to blame me … Continue reading

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Little White Lies?

    In yesterday’s class it became obvious that most if not all of us subscribe to the idea that a little white lie never hurt anybody.  Hiding the truth or inflating things a little bit can keep others from … Continue reading

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Book Review: 12 Rules for Life

  I have just finished reading Jordan Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and I feel like I have been in a fight. But it’s a good fight.  The very kind of fight we long … Continue reading

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Twelve Rules for Life – Or Death?

In my last post I cited Walker Percy’s observation that this modern age is one of “theory and consumption.”     That means, according to Brian A. Smith in his commentary on Percy, that: Americans are a sad people, and we commonly … Continue reading

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Twelve More Rules: Really?

  You already know, if you read this blog regularly, that I am a consistent reader of Rod Dreher.  He blogs extensively – actually, almost manically at times – over at The American Conservative.  He writes about the intersections between … Continue reading

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