Category Archives: Characteristics

Don’t Pursue Happiness 

By | July 21, 2025

[July 21, 2025]  Happiness is fleeting and unpredictable.  If you want happiness, drink alcohol and abuse drugs (that’s a bit of sarcasm).  The lesson is don’t pursue happiness. Drug use works, at least in the short term, and it’s cheap and instantaneous.  Of course, alcohol and many drugs destroy the lives of perhaps five to ten percent of… Read More »

What is a Warrior?

By | June 20, 2025

[June 20, 2025]  Last night my computer modem died and the Xfinity store closed early for Junteenth. So, I’m republishing an older article that my readers are sure to like—What is a warrior?  Now as soon as I get my Internet back, I’ll be rested and ready. Inevitably, the discussion turned to the question, “What is a warrior?” … Read More »

“I Double Dare Ya”

By | June 19, 2025

[June 19, 2025]  For some reason, I seemed to have a bunch of time on my hands as a little kid. That meant my friends and I were also given opportunities to get into trouble, often by starting fistfights with each other. Preceding any fight, however, there was the obligatory taunting: sticking your tongue out, name-calling, “you hit… Read More »