When I am asked “can I ask you something personal,” I say yes but I also think/say that anything can be asked I just don’t always answer they way that is expected.
Author Archives: SFA
Fuddy Duddy
Why and when do we think of the elderly as elderly?
At what age are we ‘young’ and they are ‘old?’
We say “They are so old, get with the times” or in reverse, “Back in my day…”
A temporary ponderance while writing
I continue to enjoy the randomness of my mind and sometimes the inability to find the right search terms in seeking an answer the question I came up with. I say sometimes because without a webpage to refer to my mind gets to drift into possibilities of its own. Continue reading
Fire Good
I have not yet looked into it but I wonder how many ideas of “men are men” and “women are women” have passed through time not just as an oral history but just because we are men and women.
Day by Day
We wake up at some point and do whatever we do after we wake up. (I don’t call it morning since it might not be for everyone.) Some people smash the shit out of their snooze button over and over again. A practice that makes no sense to me as I believe you should just get up when you you wake up or when you need to, barring of course illness or sleep deprivation. But I’m also one of those people, rare it seems, that once I’m awake I’m ready to go. I very rarely use an alarm let alone the snooze button to get me to a more awake state. I like to think I used the time actually sleeping to get my sleep.
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Superheroes
With all the superhero movies around it led to a discussion of “who is your favorite?”.
There aren’t many easy questions in life for me but this one, unless I’m given other evidence, is a slamdunk.
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Limits and roadblocks are okay and expected in life except when it’s youself. – Nirav
– Santa’s Fallen Angel
Movie review: Ender’s Game
I watch a lot of movies and very little television. I rarely, compared to the movies that i watch, feel the need to share my opinion on a movie. This is one of those times. Yes there may be spoilers in this. I haven’t written it yet but i can’t imagine this without some.
i remember when… follow up
I wonder if i’ve ever learned any lessons now that i’ve had time to reflect from my last post.
i remember when
recently i saw and heard an elderly woman on a very new looking macbook air listening without headphones to something or someone screeching. perhaps a video of a grandchild. i was thinking that the elderly of that generation usually talk about manners and the way things were and wondered where her headphones were. but i also hear about the idea that they have lived long enough so they can do and get away with almost any damn thing they want. betty white’s new show, assuming it is still on, plays on this idea at times. grandma and her eccentricities.