I’ve been pretty depressed lately. I don’t know if it is the holidays or maybe still the after effects of my wife dying five months ago. Part of it is I have a sense of losing control. Perhaps it is … Continue reading Having A Sense Of Control…
For those of us who live on the margins of life, getting shoved to the background is almost a daily thing. I really don’t have any recollection of ever belonging to the mainstream in any area of my life. But, … Continue reading Getting Shoved In To The Background…
Today, I celebrate the birth of Jesus, who came to earth to teach us how to live and love. I pray that in the coming years, that more of us will finally be able to embrace HIS teachings. Instead of … Continue reading Merry Christmas From RJsCorner
Right now, I am still pretty mobile. I can go everywhere I want in my car. There will come a time when I will be pretty locked into this place, if I don’t have help. When That time comes I … Continue reading RetComLife #21 – Keeping Things Interesting
In the new RJsCorner, I want to get back to my roots, and Will Rogers is one of those roots I have avoided for too long. Years ago, when I started creating my personal style of writing, Will Rogers was … Continue reading Understanding Stupidity – Will Roger’s Style…
One of my first “big boy” books was a biography of Einstein. I think I was about twelve years old when I read the first one. It was about 300 pages long, and I didn’t image I would ever finish … Continue reading Happiness #5 – According to Einstein
I talk frequently here at the new RJsCorner about my deafness and autism. Many of the posts are about how I deal with all the obstacles that are a result of those two conditions. For this post I am talking … Continue reading In The Zone – My Superpower
Given last Friday’s announcement of the new RJsCorner, where one of my life goals is now to raise the awareness of how people with autism might think differently than most, we are in most respects very much the same as … Continue reading Neurodivergent. I Kinda Like That…
I am going to unofficially assign some of Sunday’s posts as a time for reflection. It will be about looking back to discover the lessons learn and unlearned. It will be about insight/wisdom learned that might be valuable to others. … Continue reading Looking Back On Life – The Regrets
Welcome to the first of hopefully many posts in the new Streaming Nights category. This new section is dedicated to showing you some of the streaming videos that I find particularly enticing. The recommendation for today’s post is Adrian Dunbar’s … Continue reading Streaming Nights – Ireland
“My wife’s death five months ago yesterday caused me to do some pretty serious soul-searching. It made me realize that I was just going-with-the-flow in too many areas of my life. I was aimlessly moving from one day to another … Continue reading Resetting my Life Goals
I have been casually studying of Aristotle for many years, and have recently started another book about him. He was definitely a dreamer/thinker that I could never even imagine being. It is amazing to me how so many of his … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #4: According to Aristotle
RJsCorner is in its 14th year now, so I have covered countless categories in the 5,000 posts you will find here. As the years have gone by my primary focus here has changed several times. The latest change will be … Continue reading RJsCorner – It’s Time For A Change
All my life I have been stuck between two worlds. Perhaps the most severe is when I went totally deaf 34 years ago. It was obvious that I was no longer in the hearing world, but by the same token … Continue reading Stuck Between Two Worlds…
I will admit up front that I am just not much of a Mark Twain enthusiast. His folksy way of writing just never appealed to me. And then there were his senior years when he became an extremely bitter old … Continue reading The Difference Between…
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