On Just About Everything
I have decided to use the upcoming lifetime roadtrip to move out of my comfort zone and look for alternative areas of the country for my retirement community life. Except for four years in New Jersey, and a few months … Continue reading RetComLife#35 – Outside My Comfort Zone
I have let it be known here on RJsCorner that I am disappointed in most Christian Churches. So many of them are now dominated by those who act very contrary to their founder’s words. I know not every one of … Continue reading Back To My Religious Roots?
I have dreamed of doing a trip similar to John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charlie for the last sixty years, and now, to some extent, it is about to happen. As a young man, I dreamed of having some of the … Continue reading The Nagging Question About My Roadtrip
I sadly have pretty much lived my life based with too much caution. I spent twenty years in a profession that I never really liked because I was afraid to be without a paycheck. I never really managed to live … Continue reading Life Exists, But It Is Never Fulfilled By Too Much Caution
Before I lived in my retirement community, I used to drive 22 miles to walk the mall every Friday. That ritual included lunch out in selected places. Now that I have the walking path around our community I have gotten … Continue reading A Personal Observation About Eating Out…
I came across an interesting article a few months ago that got caught in the cracks, but I am bringing it out now. I have been writing a journal for 40 years now, but I still have lessons to learn … Continue reading Brain Dump Journalling
I have always avoided the ever-growing self-checkouts whenever possible. I did so for two reasons They took away jobs for those who have low skills. – Not everyone has the ambition and the ability to learn the skills necessary for … Continue reading I Hate Self-Checkouts
Some cling to traditions as if it were life itself. I am not one of them. To me, traditions are too often used to cling to prejudice and a fanatical resistance to change, any change. I saw that on display … Continue reading Some Cling To Traditions…
I am starting to have my doubts whether I want to make my permanent home here in my present retirement community. That is what this post is all about. First, I am paying a lot of money for things I … Continue reading RetComLife # 34 – Starting To Have Some Serious Doubts
I love streaming TV. The Ala cart way to watch TV is fantastic. I don’t miss the 200 cable channels full of ads. Because of streaming, it is nice to see that the rest of the world is not so … Continue reading Another Acorn Must Watch…
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, want to explore what I want to get from the upcoming extended roadtrip. Two things come immediately to mind. The first is, “Are extended roadtrips even possible for me at this time in my life?” … Continue reading Is It Even Possible??
A few posts ago I tried to convince you to do a roadtrip instead of getting on an airplane. I will soon be going on a roadtrip that is sixty years in the making, so I decided to refresh my … Continue reading Roadtripping, The How-To’s
This post like many, came to me in my daily morning shower. Over the past many years I have come to realize that I am a “morning” person. Most of my creative juices come during the first five or six … Continue reading Until It’s Gone
As soon as my µRV gets out of the shop from fixing my cruise control I am going to take it for an overnight shakedown trip just to make sure everything is just right. The destination is The Kentucky Artisan … Continue reading Kentucky Artisan Center
Here I am sitting at my keyboard again, when I should be having dinner. Let me explain a little more. Some of you know that I have Aspie traits that make social situations uncomfortable. For that reason, I usually go … Continue reading RetComLife#33 – I Am Tired Of …
Most who come here regularly know that I am about to embark on a road trip that has been on my agenda for 60 years. I have taken many road trips in my life, but this will be the longest … Continue reading Why A Roadtrip??
Fitting in is a cultural expectation. From birth, we are told that this is the way you get along with others. It starts with your parents telling you how to behave, and, if you let it, it continues throughout your … Continue reading Fitting In…
I read an article in the New York Times last week with the title above. I have let it be known here on RJsCorner that I don’t think they really thought out putting Asperger’s Syndrome into the Autism Spectrum. To … Continue reading How Long Should It Take To Grieve?
For this Sunday, I give you fire and brimstone. I don’t know what brimstone is, but I probably deserve a lot of it. I have made it clear here on RJsCorner that I am no longer religious, but I am … Continue reading Fire And Brimstone…
Yesterday, I talked about the John Steinbeck book Travels with Charlie – In Search Of America and how it has affected me for all my travel life. I have always dreamed of making a similar trip and that is about … Continue reading 60 Years In The Making…
My retirement community consumes hundreds of pounds of paper daily. Each of the 400 or so residents gets a dozen or so pages a day of notices/menus/activities/etc. related to our community life. I think maybe I hit a sore spot … Continue reading RetComLife #32 – Joining the 21st Century
This post will be about the benefits of traveling. I am now knee-deep in the process of preparing for my first farewell tour, which will be into the South, and Southwest of our great country. When I am starting such … Continue reading About Traveling…
Most of my photo portfolio now resides on Amazon Photos. Every morning they email me pictures I have taken on that day in years past. This one was taken on March 25, 2013 looking out my patio door! Don’t get … Continue reading Don’t Get Too Anxious
Some people go through life with little or no changes. They live in the house they inherited from their parents. They have never been away from the area they grew up. Change just doesn’t happen to them, UNTIL IT DOES… … Continue reading Adjusting To Unexpected Changes…
The phrase above was first published in 1602 as the first line of an anonymous poem in Francis Davison’s anthology Poetical Rhapsody. I don’t remember the first time I heard that phrase, but I have come to realize that, at least … Continue reading Absence Makes The Mind Grow Fonder…
I have to warn you up front that his post is kinda surreal, so hang on. If the title above doesn’t show you that this post is bizarre then let me tell you it is a fictional town full of … Continue reading I Have Adopted A Town
My father was one of those people who just didn’t want to think about death. He would almost leave the room whenever that topic came up. He was two years older than I am now when his end came. He … Continue reading Walking Through The Valley Of Death…
For some reason, history is on my mind, so let’s start off where we finished yesterday. Let’s face it, our founding fathers do not live up to current standards in many of today’s regards. Most were slaveholders who had little … Continue reading Using Perspective When Reviewing History
I am a history nut. I have read many more books on the subject than even I can remember. My main interest is U.S. history, but other countries have also been in my purview. From experience, I have learned that … Continue reading Rewriting History…
I want to tell you a little story about my retirement community home. Due to Omicron, they shut down the “sit and wait” dining room service in February and replaced it with a cafeteria type carry-out service. That proved to … Continue reading RetComLife #30 – The Lucy Moment…
I thought I had resolved to thinking of my Aspie traits as just being part of the autism spectrum. With that resolution, I was ready to move forward and start advocating for autism in general. But, I was wrong. I … Continue reading Having Aspie Traits Is Not A Handicap Or A Disorder
When I left my very forested homestead last year, I thought I was giving up the pleasure of seeing my feathered friends. Well, not quite. I have a couple of trees outside my second-floor patio doors. This picture was taken … Continue reading Another Sign Of Spring
I am approaching the end years of my life, and as a result, I am yet again contemplating “why I am here?”. I have always been concerned that maybe all I am doing is sucking air. I know I have … Continue reading Looking For The Greater Meaning… Perhaps There Is None
There are too many in this world today who are fixated on being “right”. They grab onto one thought and cling to it as if they would die without it. Of course, that goes very much against my mantra Question … Continue reading QUESTION EVERYTHING, Including Yourself
I have decided that starting today, I am pausing my scheduled weekly posts and just writing about what I am feeling each day. That is, I will be treating RJsCorner as what its title says as a daily journal of … Continue reading Taking A Different Path…
For this post, I am going to step back a little and look as someone besides Bonhoeffer for wisdom. This comes from an Italian economist Carlo Cipolla who was a leading expert in the field of human stupidity. He wrote … Continue reading Understanding Stupidity #8 – The Three Primary Causes
As far as I am concerned, everyone wears a mask. It is just the way we cope in the world. I have read so many articles in the last few months from those who have autism about wanting to tear … Continue reading Unmasked vs Unhinged.
Just a simple picture for this Saturday. It was taken 13 years ago today at our 21-year homestead. We were surrounded by hundred-year-old oak trees that were home for too many birds and other critters to count. This little guy … Continue reading Simplicity…
I have been having some disappointments here at my retirement community lately. The main one are the dining options. I have a $350 monthly stipend for meals for each month. Until this month, I seldom used over $100 of that amount. When Omicron came on the scene in late January, the eat-in dining room was closed and replaced with a walk-up cafe option. That made the world’s difference to me. I no longer had to jump through all the hoops to get my meals. Instead of spending up to two hours a day in the sit-down dining room waiting for … Continue reading RetComLife #29 – Some Disappointments
With this post, I am going to point some blame for our current problems, back to those who are shouting the loudest for change. I am one of them. We see everyone else trying to get attention for their issues, … Continue reading Piling On…
When I was looking through my photo portfolio for my first post in the category. The one last week on avatars didn’t count 😉. When I came across this one, it immediately captured my attention. But, before I go into … Continue reading A Picture is Worth #2 – She Wanted Kids So Badly…
I have been doing a LOT of reading about autism, particularly Aspergers, lately. Thanks to the Medium.com, when I searched for the word “Autism” I got thousands of stories. They kept coming and coming for days at a time. It … Continue reading I Can See How It Is Easy to Become Obsessed
Some day, you are going to wake up and realize you’re too old to have any real fun. One of the downsides of being a dreamer almost all of my life is that I spent too much time dreaming and … Continue reading Some Day, You Are Going To Wake Up And…
I have been in my retirement community now for over seven months, but much of me still remains at my homestead. RetComLife is much different from where I had been for a decade. It is more difficult than I imaged … Continue reading RetComLife #28 – Homestead vs Community Mindset
When I started blogging fourteen years ago, blogging was a leading-edge technology. It was primarily text with maybe a few images, but since the Internet speeds were less than 1% of what they are now, pictures took a long time … Continue reading A Picture Is Worth… #1 -About Avatars
