Thoughts at a Red Light

Hard to miss all the controversy about NFL kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech. Here is my take solely based on his speech (not comments he made before or after). Honestly, I find it disgusting to degrade a man who clearly loves his wife and upholds her in high regard. I can’t say that about other professional…

Are you ready for the next 10 months? No matter where you turn to listen to ‘news’, can you really distinguish it from ‘editorial’? I just cannot bear to watch national news right now. The insanity of our politics and the editorial style of news these days sends my stomach into turmoil. It is clickbait…

Recently while listening to several podcasts in my weekly consumption, I heard both therapists and pastors say, ‘feelings are not right or wrong, they just are’. What?? Uh, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This declaration coming from therapists I understand after all I am one. Therapists are trained to ask this hardly ever useful question, ‘How does that make…

I honestly, cannot relate to people who come into my office and tell me they are bored. How is this possible? 🤔 Please tell me, what is it like to feel bored? How in the world do you get in this state? I do not think I have felt that way in at least 25,…

🚦🚦🚦— This is not a deep thought, but the tale to two incompetent people who sat in front of me during John Wick 4. 🚦 First, let me just say I am ecstatic anytime my son invites me to do anything. ‘Yes’ is my immediate answer without questioning what we are doing. Recently while my…

Waiting…it is a life skill you need. For three days I tried to connect with a human being at AT&T to change my tv/internet/phone plans. Every morning I was on hold, waiting. For 30 minutes I kept being told it was a 9-minute wait. I clearly was not giving it enough time before I had…

After wasting my last remaining daily brain cells on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, I long for The Golden Age of Television. The days of good sitcoms, dramas, and investigative shows. You know, ‘must see TV’ when you had to watch ON the day and AT the time it ran or you missed it.…

Thin-Skinned is a Choice : Why have so many people chosen to be thin-skinned and offended at anything that comes along?

Changing the definition of something doesn’t make it easier to achieve your agenda. It just creates other problems.