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Mental Health

January 2025 – Movies I Watched, Books I Read

“Year One,” by Nora Roberts [i] Mom and Dad (2017) Dark Skies (2013) Train to Busan (2016) Virus (1980) “Firestarter,” by Stephen King Hack Your Health, the Secrets of Your Gut (2024) Star Trek (2009) “The Chesapeake Trilogy,” by Nora Roberts “The Deficit Myth,” by Stephanie Kelton The Stand (1994) “’Salem’s Lot,” by Stephen King The Storm of the Century (1999) [limited series] Missing You … Continue reading January 2025 – Movies I Watched, Books I Read

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Mental Health

Movies – the good, the bad, and the “they’re so awful, they’re great.”

We like to categorize things. We sort. We rank. We judge. These aren’t great qualities when we do it to people, but when it comes to entertainment – for which options are near infinite and increasing daily – reviews help us make choices, help us prioritize the offerings, and help us take advantage of our limited time. Our finite well of time is why I … Continue reading Movies – the good, the bad, and the “they’re so awful, they’re great.”

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Mental Health

And then there were memes.

It’s hard coming up with clever titles for repetitious offerings, not that I’ve ever been queen of the title. I’m the opposite of good with them, at least on a technical level. I don’t want to talk about capitalizations. And content is so subjective. In addition to culling the vast quantity of desktop memes I’ve saved lo these many years, I’m attempting to reduced the … Continue reading And then there were memes.

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pop culture

We get offended: Our pet peeves are important to us.

We’re not so tolerant of people choosing to do things differently than we would, especially when it comes to minutiae. We sweat the small stuff. We can manage peaceful coexistence when it comes to the bigger issues – conservative or liberal, religious or atheist, Pepsi or Coke: when it comes to these things, most of the time we agree to disagree. Yes, there are wars … Continue reading We get offended: Our pet peeves are important to us.

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