On Just About Everything
As mentioned in the previous post in this series, I have discovered the hard way that happiness can never happen when you become fixated on your unhappiness. I think this post will be the end of this series, as I … Continue reading Happiness #9 – Conquering Unhappiness
What makes you think that you are not a figment of my imagination?? RJ Walters I have been reading a lot of philosophy stuff lately, and have come to the conclusion that all of this nasty stuff going on today … Continue reading What Makes You Think…
This is a new Special Series here at RJsCorner. It will be ten posts long and cover the things on the poster to the right.. Life’s Rules is about “being” a good person and a world citizen and caretaker. It … Continue reading Life’s Rules #1 – Prepare To Learn
This is my 5,000th post here on RJsCorner. When I started this blog fourteen years ago, I never imagined that I would write so much. Five-thousand, 500 word posts equals to about 28 novels, or 3.3 Bibles! I didn’t know … Continue reading 5,000!!
Today’s post of my view of my retirement community is about the latest lockdown and how my community is communicating with the residents. The Omicron version of COVID-19 has much of the country running scared right now, and my retirement … Continue reading RetComLife #24 – Lockdown & Communications
I’m just not a “manly” man. I’m not afraid to say that. It doesn’t hurt my ego at all. In fact, I am quite proud that I have many feminine characteristics. One of those is that I love the “Anne … Continue reading Finding Your Kindred Spirit
Ok, with this post, I am going to give you a personal secret on how I have finally became a happier person. No, I don’t think I have achieved total happiness, but I am on my way to it. I … Continue reading Happiness #8 – Doing What Makes You Come Alive…
I have been a regular user of the Firefox web browser for a few years now, but I recently tried Microsoft’s new browser tagged as “Edge”. It finally won me over. I am an Apple guy to my core and … Continue reading Just Browsing Around…
As promised on my December 23rd post, this is the first in a series about Stupidity. It might seem strange to make this topic for a weekly series, but stupidity has serious connotations for our times, as it did during … Continue reading Understanding Stupidity #1 – The Origins Of This Study
I am enjoying a high-level view of various philosophers through the ages. Aristotle is perhaps my favorite, but Francis Bacon has recently come to my attention because of his view on adversity. Some of his words on that topic are … Continue reading Philosophers Look At Adversity
Some people think the two words in the title above are the same thing. My wife was one of them, and of course, I was the opposite. It wasn’t until the end of her life that I found just how … Continue reading Challenging vs Threatening?
Here I am in post #23, and I have yet to talk much about what lifecare means. So, here goes There are thousands of nursing homes that dot the country. I am willing to bet that they are in at … Continue reading RetComLife#23 – Life Plan Communities
I know the title above probably confuses you, but if you think about it, (and are smart 😎), you will realize that the phrase is true. Let’s look at Jeff Bezos to see how that works. Bezos is worth over … Continue reading Smart People Are Actually Wrong – A Lot
If we could just find the reason for why we are not happy maybe we can finally find happiness. That is the core thought for this post. Most people, including me for much of my life, feel unhappy. Good things … Continue reading Happiness #7 – Why Are We Unhappy?
I know the term “Coexist” is primarily associated with religions. I have had a sticker on the back of my vehicles for longer than I can remember to that effect. The world would be a much better place if all … Continue reading Peaceful Coexistence – In Marriage
Autism is a neurological condition. That means those who are autistic are wired differently than those who are neurotypical (meaning like everyone else). We are not necessarily dumber, more handicapped, or smarter, just different. So, you could say that Autism … Continue reading Autism As A Parallel Universe?
A recent study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that 38 percent of 65-year-olds will develop moderate needs, almost one-quarter will have severe needs, 22 percent will have minimal needs and 17 percent will have no … Continue reading RetComLife#22- How Many Will Need To Join Retirement Communities?
These last few years have been a struggle for all of us. There was the lying idiot narcissist who occupied the Oval Office. That made those four years almost intolerable, and then came the virus which we were totally unprepared … Continue reading We All Need Something To Laugh About
The best description of my country right now is a thousand pieces of shattered glass. Like Humpty Dumpty it’s hard to imagine putting it back together. I am a history buff, so I know this is not the first time … Continue reading Making Something Beautiful…
The realization came to me the other days that for the first time in my life I now have total control of what I do and how I choose to live my life. That is a very exciting thing, but … Continue reading For The First Time…
Let’s all vow to make 2022 the best year of our lives. Continue reading Happy New Years From RJsCorner
Happy New Year’s Eve to all you who may come across RJsCorner. I know the common logic is that everyone makes New Year’s resolutions and then breaks them before the end of the week. So, why bother? Well, I have … Continue reading Here’s To New Year’s Resolutions…
Let’s finish off this year with some thoughts that are way above our pay grade. The aging process should be reversed. We ought to start out wise and as we age we get dumber. That sure would save a lot … Continue reading Should Have Been All Along…
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 imagine 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
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
Let’s start out this post with three collages that my wife made a year before her death. She spent hours arranging and re-arranging the photos of all the pets in our married life to make them just right. I now … Continue reading RetComLife #20 – How About Pets?
Here I am almost 8 months since my wife’s heart attack that ended her life, and I am still dealing with these end-of-life issues. One of the many things you have to do when you lose a spouse is to … Continue reading Quality Of Life…Just Pull The Plug
Let’s continue on with the look at the article What is Happiness by Kendra Cherry as mentioned last Wednesday. She says that happiness is a very subjective thing that varies greatly from one person to another. Here is a list … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #3 – How To Know If You’re Happy
If I am to believe much of what I have read, education has not seriously begun to track the needs of the future world. The key problem in the U.S. is how education is funded, and content is determined at … Continue reading Education IS The Key…
One thing you should be paying attention to when you are choosing a retirement community is the weekly activities. Are there any that interest you or make you happy? I am still pretty active in my life away from my … Continue reading RetComLife #19 – Things That Make Me Happy
I know this is a terrible time to take on, as I am doing, a project related to happiness. It looks like we might be mired down into another mutation of this stupid COVID virus. When will it end? That … Continue reading We Gotta Find Something to be Happy About.
I have spent the last couple of weeks studying the idea of happiness. I’ve looked at a couple of dozen different sources for a place to start. One article I came across that impressed me with its brevity, yet completeness … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #2 – Where To Start…
RJsCorner is not known to shy away from controversial subjects, so with the post, I am “having my say” about the Critical Race Theory (CRT). Maybe we should call Critical Race Theory a cultural overhaul, since CRT seems to be … Continue reading A Cultural Overhaul
Let’s spend this lazy Sunday after Thanksgiving talking about technological progress and how it is changing our world. Fifty years from now everthing we think of as the miracles of technology will be long forgotten and replace by much better … Continue reading Solutions Seeking Problems…
We Baby Boomers were the first generation to easily travel. Airplanes, the Interstate system and such allowed us to experience lots of regional and international foods that were not available to the previous generations who are presently the majority in … Continue reading RetComLife #18 – Technology-Driven Improvements in Dining.
I will be spending this day with some of the family clan. It’s been too many years since I have done that. I have a lot to be thankful for. Not the least of which is you guys who come … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving
