Mom’s Skin Cancer

Mom was picking me up for church in her new car. It was a nice car, I thought, though I don’t know much about cars. It was definitely better than her older car, the door of which I broke while opening it, and which was falling to pieces in other ways. She had definitely beenContinue

Neighbor’s Wedding

There was a tap tap on my apartment door. I thought perhaps it was the apartment manager, Betty, coming to ask me to sign a new lease, because my rent is going to increase next month. I sighed and got up and answered the door. It was a younger lady. She looked nervous. And sheContinue

Episode 12

Today, let’s talk about a sensitive subject. Much could be said about it, much more than I’m going to say today, but I just want to share a few thoughts. On suicide. Emile Durkheim said there four types of suicide, four reasons for suicide. They were anomic suicide, egoistic suicide, fatalistic suicide, and altruistic suicide.Continue

Episode 11 Notes

[Start off by talking about camera/SD card] Friend was asking me about calendars: What was the first year? So let’s talk about calendars. The first year in the Christian Era was the year 1 A.D. or C.E.. There was no year 0. First year before that is 1 B.C. We currently use the Gregorian calendar,Continue

Episode 9

waiting for camera ordered off Walmart used to get groceries delivered from Walmart, can’t now in a small town anyway, camera is coming going to make fitness videos fitness videos are going to be fun, but I am serious about fitness kind of like Richard Simmons: easy workouts, not shredded, fun, about personality, a characterContinue

Episode 9 Notes

Love k-cups, love tea Ordered tea pods 33 cents a pod, use twice matcha tea included matcha specially grown and powdered not sure if the pods are good match tea good for energy caffeine is stimulant, affects adrenaline (epinephrine; digress about “on the renal/nephrine” as root) excitatory vs. inhibitory neurotransmitters also contains l-theanine l-theanine aContinue

Episode 7

Absurdity Plato said that the unexamined life is not worth living. He thought that we need to find out what constituted the good life. His god, the Demiurge, had crafted the world with purpose. Plato’s student Aristotle continued the examination of the good life. He wrote on what made a person virtuous. Aristotle thought thatContinue

Episode 6

Everybody has an opinion about the economy, yet almost none of us are economists. And we don’t even try to be. Economics is one of those areas of study that is so complex that people either don’t appreciate how complex it is and suppose that they know how it all works, or else they recognizeContinue

Podcast Episode 5 Things to Talk About

In a small town, things are simple. Especially the ideas. Or, if they’re not simple, they’re just not thought through very well. One of the things Kyan and I like to do is frequent the local Dollar General. We love to walk, ad if we’re walking, why not walk to Dollar General and pick upContinue

Podcast Episode 3 Script

The phone rang.  The number didn’t show up. It showed up as Restricted. I had been trying to read The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. I was enjoying my evening on my chaise longue with a book in hand. I had also been reading a psychology book, though I don’t at this momentContinue