On Just About Everything
Perhaps the thing that has turned me off the most to today’s version of organized religion is that each version is absolutely convinced that their truths are the only real ones. No matter how small or large the group is, … Continue reading Pretending To Have All The Answers
I know some people take pride in blindly walking the path of life. But that is simply not me!! 🙄 If I don’t plan, I don’t exist… Continue reading Blindly Prodding Ahead
The new RJsCorner is going to include stories about my current life and times. I now reside in a retirement community and just didn’t know what to expect before I came. I have been here about three weeks now, but … Continue reading * RetComLife #1 – Introducing RetComLife
The word “family” means different things to different people. When I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, I never really had much of a sense of family being something particularly important. I would find out later that was primarily … Continue reading Family
This is the first of I don’t know how many posts, documenting my two and a half months of being consumed by healthcare issues relating to the last days of my wife’s life. Why am I doing this? I am … Continue reading End Of Life Trauma – Part 1 The ER
America has for most of my lifetime been a country who welcomes others. That was severely changed for the four years that despicable person occupied the Oval Office. It is just strange to me that so many who call themselves … Continue reading Welcoming Others…
I have been away from RJsCorner for more than two months now dealing with health issues of my beloved wife. I will start off with the end and then take you through the process to how we got here. My … Continue reading End Of Life Trauma – Starting At The End
I hope some of my regular readers are still around after this almost three month absence. Plainly speaking, my world has been turned upside down during this period.. I have lots of experiences and feelings to tell you about, and … Continue reading My World Turned Upside Down
The above headline came from CNN on my daily news feed this morning. It sounds pretty dreadful that 153 hospital workers have refused to be vaccinated. These are the types of titles that get all the attention. The greater shock … Continue reading Refusing The Vaccine…
I am going to get back on my Old vs New Testament soapbox for this Sunday, but first I want to bring up some interesting statistics that I recently discovered. For the first time since data has been taken, less … Continue reading Good God / Vengeful God…
This post is part of the series about my experiences with today’s version of American healthcare, particularly associated with my wife’s fifty days and counting exposure to it after her fourth heart attack. I’m sure I have interfaced with at … Continue reading You’re On Your Own – Being Your Own Doctor
This is another OTR from my blog RJsTravels which is in hiatus while I try to bring it back to RJsCorner. The next report will be originated here. This was one of my most pleasant trips I have taken. Day … Continue reading On The Road Canada – Day 11 -13: St. Lawrence River, New Brunswick
There is so much of the Old Testament that still drives many versions of Christianity, especially among White Evangelicals. They seem to be fixated on the wrath of God rather than the love of Jesus. The vast majority of the … Continue reading It’s Time For A Divorce
Here is another picture of my recent visit to the Haan House Sculpture Garden. I can’t imagine the satisfaction of being able to produce such a … Continue reading Another Sculptural Garden Beauty
I just got finished reading about how nursing home rating are for the most part useless. They depend entirely on the homes to rate themselves and pass a few health inspections. It was found that 5 star home fared no … Continue reading Our Federal Government Is In Serious Need Of Reform
Change comes whether we want it to or not, especially when you are a senior citizen. I learned that once again when my wife had her fourth heart attack recently. This one was worse than the three others combined. These … Continue reading It Can Change In An Instant – Part 1 – Too Much Data…
To get away from the pressures of the day I recently took a two-day trip to Lafayette, Indiana, particularly to the Haan Museum of Indiana Art. … Continue reading The Hidden Things Close To Home
This is day 10 of our Canadian adventure, and we are in Old Quebec. This is the last major city we will see in Canada. While Old Quebec was much more enjoyable than Montreal it was still a hectic time. … Continue reading On The Road Canada: Day 10 – Old Quebec
It’s been four weeks since I have written a blog post here. There have been a few that were in the queue before April 29, but they were written before that date. My regular readers know the reason for that … Continue reading Easing Back In…
I guess I must tell you up front that this trip was taken in 2011. That was a time in the infancy of GPS map apps so that explains all the problems when we used Google Maps for guidance. Things … Continue reading On The Road Canada: Day 8 – 9 – Thoughts, Montreal, Quebec, Sunday Morning
Day 4 We went to the Canada Science and Technology Museum before trying to check into our hotel. They had a lot of neat exhibits there and a wall of fame that had about thirty pictures and related bios there. … Continue reading On-The-Road Canada: Day 4-7 Ottawa
Most of these first posts in the new category On The Road (OTR) originally appeared on RJsTravels and is now being moved to their home here on RJsCorner. All OTR posts started from my personal daily journal entries during the … Continue reading ON-THE-ROAD CANADA: DAY 1-3: SUDBURY, WOULD YOU LIKE GRAVY WITH THAT?
Just a quick snippet to tell you that I am still around, but just in the standby mode. My Walden time of utter simplification for a week turned out to be the exact opposite. On April 30th my wife had her fourth heart attack. She survived it, but the heart damage is uncertain. At the same time they found that she has a severe gall bladder infection that is resistant to all antibiotics that they have tried so far. The infection could become life-threatening but, because of the heart attack they can’t simply remove it as is the common solution. … Continue reading On Hold For Now…
HAPPY MAY DAY First of all, Happy May Day! May is definitely my favorite month of the year. Spring is going full speed, and things are coming to life after a dreary winter. I have been wanting to do this … Continue reading A Walden Pond Resolution For May Day…
In case you didn’t know this picture is of a jellyfish. They are so beautiful in an aquarium surrounded by blue lights, but they are sometimes … Continue reading Something So Beautiful, But…
I want to use this post to try to do a “check in” about my spiritual life. I need to do this on a periodic basis to be sure I am moving forward spiritually. It is just too easy to … Continue reading I Believe
I thought long and hard what picture I would use to launch this new section of RJsCorner. I chose Williamsburg because it is my favorite place to visit. I have been there three times, and stayed in the village on … Continue reading Williamsburg Virginia
I celebrate the fact that I got my second shot of the vaccine over a month ago. But, if you listen to all the “experts” they say nothing changes, yet…” We can’t celebrate until the rest of us are there … Continue reading It’s Great To Be On The Other Side Of The Vaccine, But…
I don’t know if you noticed, but I am doing yet another overhaul of my blog sites. I spent January of this year separating them into four different sites. I am now bringing them all back home to RJsCorner. There … Continue reading Bringing It All Back Home…
Yesterday’s conviction in the Floyd George murder trial was a defining moment where justice was finally served. Hopefully, it will result in implementing tragically needed change in it the way our police forces are arranged We will no longer allow … Continue reading A Defining Moment
The most terrorizing thing for many white men, and particularly evangelicals, is that everyone now is demanding a seat at the table. There are unarmed revolutions going on now in most countries of the world saying that we will no … Continue reading A Seat At The Table…
There is a difference between worshiping Jesus and actually doing what he told us to do. I remember the documentary entitled “From Jesus to Christ” in 1998 on PBS Frontline. It was the serious beginning of my spiritual search for … Continue reading RLL – Worshiping vs Following
Sixty years ago, when the Interstate Highway system was being developed the word “Infrastructure” was limited to only roads and bridges. Since then, it has been expanded to mean “things needed for the operation of a society”. It is nice … Continue reading Infrastructure… A New Meaning?
One thing I like about Progressive Christians is that they call out hypocrites when they see them. We have to let the world know that White Evangelicals do not represent Christianity. Following Jesus is the basis for my spiritual life, … Continue reading RLL – The Hypocritical Version…
The cartoon above from ProgressiveChristianity is probably the most effective way to counter those like the previous Supreme Court Justice Scalia. He proclaimed that he always looked at the constitution as what the founding father intent was. In other words … Continue reading What About The Founding Fathers??
Wealthy Americans are concealing large amounts of income from the I.R.S. There is a very easy way to fix that. When During World War II, the federal government started withholding income taxes from workers’ paychecks. The withholding system remains the … Continue reading Those Cheating On Their Taxes
Before I get started talking about those who proclaim the Progressive Christian mantel I thought it would be best to give you what I see as the foundations of both Evangelicals and Progressive Christians. Of course, in about 500 words, … Continue reading RLL – The Fundemental Differences Between Evangelical and Progressive Christians
Albert Einstein never wore socks. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know From what I can find it was just one of his rebellions against the norms of the day. It was by no means … Continue reading Trivia Saturday – Albert Einstein
Before I get started on today’s list of predictions I want to admit that there are thousands of people who claim to know the future, but in reality there is no one that really knows. Yeah, we can look at … Continue reading Global Trends 2030
I’m letting my fiscal conservative side reign on this post and talk about all the stuff going on with Amazon. I will declare that I am a frequent buyer from this company, I suspect that over half my discretionary money … Continue reading About Amazon
The very first blog I opened in 2008 was entitled InSearchOfAmerica or ISOA. It was about my portfolio of pictures I had taken on my travels around the country documenting historical sites. In those days the Internet was in its … Continue reading Seeking US History Buffs
I think I have probably spent too much time lately talking about the problems of modern Christianity. It’s time to concentrate on those who cling to the words of Jesus as I do. This post was originally made in February … Continue reading What Does Being A Progressive Christian Mean?
Humans only make up 48% of users on the Internet. The other 52% of web traffic are bots Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know I don’t know what all those bots are doing, but … Continue reading About The Internet Traffic
The obvious question to close off this series is “How can Sweden afford those benefits?” Of course a part of that answer it through relatively high taxes. But how high is that? Sweden does have the highest top marginal rate … Continue reading InDepth – US vs Sweden Post #6 – Taxes & Closing Thoughts
At some time after the vaccine is available to everyone there has to come a point where we open everything back up and tell those who refuse to take the vaccine that they are on their own. If they won’t … Continue reading On The Path To Normal: What Happens After The Vaccines…
