The Fun One 1/13/22

What I really needed was somebody to slap me upside the head at that age and say, listen, stupid, it’s not the looks, it’s the fun.

Trust 1/5/22

Maybe that’s the point to this post. I guess it’s as good as any other point that I can glean from it. In a healthy relationship, be it partner, friends or other, you should want to protect that other person from harm. I have so many friends that I’m so very attracted to (chatting to one as I write this), but I would never want to do anything to harm their relationship to their spouse. That is why they can trust me, and maybe, just maybe, it’s why they do.

Marci 11/9/21

it’s also a story of mistakes that are all too common in college, and I’m sad to say, especially for female students. I hated seeing these mistakes repeat themselves when I taught, but what can you really do as a professor?

Suffering Friends 2/12/21

We all get broken sometimes, but you can get through this. You must, because you are loved.

Helping 2/8/21

If I feel like I’m needed, I feel complete. I have no spouse, no children, not even a significant either. I am alone, and so I give what I can. My legacy will not be a child I fathered and raised, but the lessons and love I have given.

Realization 2/3/21

Regardless of how much progress I make, without this piece it will never feel like enough.

Month of Love 2/1/21

the fact is that we all know the repercussions of forgetting. That doghouse feels like it shrinks by the year, doesn’t it?

Credibility 1/27/21

they don’t trust men because so many men have already destroyed the credibility of all of us.

Residual Entropy 1/26/21

“Residual entropy” is the concept that even as we reduce the entropy of a system, there is always some entropy left over that we can never completely dispense. One example is wrinkles in a piece of paper once it’s been crumpled.

Holes in the Walls 11/6/20

I had arranged, unbeknownst to her, to have a limousine meet us at the airport. I did have time to go to a card store and buy about fifty (a little shy) love and thank-you cards, and I mailed them all to her at the hotel