I often think about the choices people make, the choices I've made, often poor choices. In retrospect, actually in some cases even at the time, better options are clear but not taken. People will chose what is less convienient, less safe, less attractive, more difficult but which provides no offsetting gain at all.

I have a clear example of this with snow. The buildings I live in have two sets of outside stairs. One set stays very protected from the weather, these stairs are always...

This topic comes up frequently and is a biggie. Given the stats, it is the elephant in the livingroom, Statistically in the US by age 40, depending on the definition, 1 out of 4 of women have been raped and 1 out of 8 men. This means not only that we are all surrounded by people who have been raped or molested but that we are also in daily contact with rapsits and molesters. I can't personally validate all the stats, I honestly think that some defintions of rape include cases that are more a matter...

I'm going to explore some thoughts here. Maybe I'm very unusual but I don't really think so. I haven't always enjoyed sex but recognised early on that it was a combination of technique and emotional or mental state (mine). Based on what I've read (and I read extensively) and have experienced, I'm just a couple years from 40 years of being sexually active, I think that just about any healthy woman should be able to enjoy sex. Granted someone with a hormone imbalance or some other health issues simply...

Thoughts can come at the oddest times. Sitting in an empty room tapping at a scraper with a hammer can actually be a good time to think, it's mindless, repetitive activity. What came to my mind recently was the people we get into relationships with and who we and they bring into it. We all come with family and freinds, maybe children, but I'm not talking about that. How many relationships have you been in where it's you, them and their anger? Or the two of you and one or both of your ex's, that...

This was written by Norbert Capek, in 1941 while he was in Dresden prison, he was lter transfered to Dachau where he died in 1942. I think it's a beautiful expression of the ultimate defiance


It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.
O blow ye evil winds
into my body's fire
my soul you'll never unravel.
Even though disappointed a thousand times
or fallen in the fight
and everything would worthless...