Archives for January, 2007

Coincidences revisted


If any of you were reading last year you may remember an interesting coincidence involving a fortune cookie. I am not one to read too much into things, but it would seem that yet another generic fortune cookie has somewhat poignant connotations for my life.
The fortune read:
Your ambitious nature will help you make a name [...]

Religious Rhetoric


One of the forums I visit online recently got into a debate about the role of religion in clinical psychology. One of the people in the discussion made the claim that “Religion is responsible for more death than anything else in the world.” The way this was phrased triggered a critical response in me. I’ve [...]

Deflated


When my wife and I got back from Vermont, the week after Christmas, we noticed that our neighbors, inflatable, light up snow man, lay limp and dark on their front lawn. It was as though he had melted in the unseasonably warm weather. Much like this inflatiable decoration, I get a hollow, empty feeling every [...]

Personality Quirks


While driving to meet my wife for dinner this evening, I passed a daycare center with a marquee that made me chuckle to myself. The sign read “Experienced infant teacher wanted.” Now, to many of you this might not be very funny, but I have long since realized that I view the world somewhat differently [...]