Looking back on my life, I can’t believe all the things I took naively for granted. I used to think that the foundation of the U.S. was our constitution. It spelled out what was important to us, but the problem … Continue reading I Can’t Believe How Wise I Am…Now
I just finished watching a streaming episode of Mad About You, when Yoko Ono asked Paul to film the wind. Paul was stumped. How do you film the wind when it is invisible? He basically never figured it out. But, … Continue reading About The Wind…
Steve Jobs was one of the founders of Apple Inc. He died at a relatively early age of 56 due to pancreatic cancer in 2011. Steve was certainly one of the pioneers of 21st century technology. I love the quote … Continue reading Steve Jobs – Your Time Is Limited…
I see where the leadership of Iran, in response to all the protests by the young people, have announced they are abolishing the “Morality Police”. Those are the forces who roam the streets looking to punish those who are not … Continue reading Mandated Morality & Insurrections
2022 was a very challenging year for me, even in my RetCom (retirement community). I tried many ways to live with so many others who were suddenly around me. I had some disappointing failures, but also a few successes. As … Continue reading About 2023 & Getting Out Of The DQ Mode
I spent the first day of this new year trying to figure out how I will live in the next 364 days. I also spent New Year’s Eve looking at what I accomplished in 2022. Before I go any further, … Continue reading Looking Back So I Can Look Forward
Let’s start off this new year at RJsCorner by looking at our view of the future. Sadly, there are those who seem to be frightened by almost everything these days. I kinda think that mentality make up a big majority … Continue reading How Do You See The Future?
Since this is the last post of 2022, it’s time for me to look back on this year that is soon to end. I couldn’t find an image that had a giant “Past” circle and a much smaller future one, … Continue reading Looking Back
As last year, I spent Christmas day this year by myself in my RetCom (retirement community) apartment. It was a peaceful time. Being that a week later, it would be another new year, I contemplated what I would like to … Continue reading How I Spent My Christmas Day
Christmas Day 2012 We only got a couple of inches of snow for Christmas this year, but it brought back memories of Christmas 2012. Do you have any special remembrances of past year’s Christmas snows? Continue reading Christmas Snow
Remember Jesus’ intention in coming to earth was not to get praise, but to teach us how to live our lives and love each other. Merry Christmas From RJsCorner Continue reading In Celebration of Jesus’ Birth
Something I pride myself in is being a disruptor. The status quo bores me! Usually, in today’s world, by the time something becomes the status quo it is no longer relevant and is in serious need of change. An important … Continue reading I Am A Disruptor, But…
Let’s do a techie post today about email scams. I, personally, use Apple Mail as my email app, and it does a pretty good job of putting junk mail into a separate basket. But, sometimes a few get through. Here … Continue reading Email Scams … I Wish They Had
I came across a post I put out a little over five years ago that deserves another go around. I think it will help some of my newer readers understand why I post the way I do, and it helped … Continue reading It’s Just Who I Am
I am a retired IT (information technology) guy, so I can tell you that the primary reason that Amazon has been able to gobble up market share in every field it enters is because of its phenomenal computer infrastructure/database. I … Continue reading Amazon Works Because…
For this coming new year I will be opening up a new blogsite centered around seniors telling stories of their lives. If you are interested in contributing, leave a comment here or contact me at RJsCorner@icloud.com This new blog will … Continue reading Calling All Storytellers & Wannabe Storytellers
I love this quote 😎. I am a techie and a senior citizen, so I just can’t understand why so many in my RetCom are so averse to technology? But, then again, one of the RetComs I visited this summer … Continue reading Senior Citizens & Technology
John P. Weiss is one of my regular blog visits each week. I am envious of his sketching talents, and reading his stories help me to be a better writer. If you want to see one of his posts click … Continue reading The Thing About Conformity
I have been trying to get some of the folks here in my RetCom (retirement community) to think about putting their life experiences on-line so that others might learn from them, or at least be entertained by them. Some of … Continue reading Sharing Our Life Stories
I spend about an hour or so every morning reading the latest news. About 50% of that time is with U.S. sources, the rest is outside our borders. It’s nice to get a different perspective on the problems of the … Continue reading An Interesting Observation From Great Britain
Even though I am deaf, I am still folk music fanatic at least in my noisy brain that is. Far and away the most influential album of my life is the one above. I can’t tell you how many times … Continue reading I Am A Rock… And A Rock Feels No Pain
This is a new thing at RJsCorner which is primarily about quotes from people usually smarter than us, that are meant to teach us a little about life outside our boxes. Most quotes are taken from a larger document and … Continue reading Learning From Those Wiser Than Us
You can’t help it. Before you were born, you resided in a small space with no windows. That was your total world. After nine months of being there, you escaped but still to a box of your parent’s making. They … Continue reading Outside The Box…
For the last month or so I have been trying to figure out a way to change the fabric of RJsCorner. I’m sure you have also seen it but more and more of my posts lately have been about my … Continue reading Introducing 801 Words – A New Project
I must admit that there are a few others on my “biggest fear” list, but the most pressing one lately is boredom. I simply must have something to challenge me from day-to-day. I must have a reason to exist. I … Continue reading My Biggest Fear – Boredom
When I was paying almost $200 per month for my satellite TV service it always bugged me that half of that cost was used to buy the television rights to sporting events of which I watched none. I have been … Continue reading A La Carte
Sometimes I wish I could take back that time when I discovered I am an Aspie. I think that moment to some degree kind of ruined the rest of my life. But, perhaps the most damaging part of that was … Continue reading It’s All About Masking And Maybe The Medium…
I admit that before I made Rhode Island a primary destination of the recent New England trip I didn’t know much about the State, and what I thought I knew was basically wrong. So, in 500 words or less I … Continue reading The Mysterious Rhode Island Explained…
I have been struggling the last 16 months in the “alone” part of my life trying to figure out what I want from the years I have left. I have the resources to do almost anything I desire. I realize … Continue reading The Times, They Are a Changing… Again
Here is the most informative and best presentation about global warming that I have yet to see. I highly suggest you check it out. Continue reading The Story About Global Warming…
I wish there was a crystal ball that I could look into to take all my worries, anxieties, and depression about the future away, but like everything else in life, things are never that simple. Silver bullets just don’t exist … Continue reading Myth # 44: Crystal Balls & Magic Bullets…
I came across some statistics lately about the dining industry that I believe explain some about the problems of my RetCom’s (retirement community) dining problems of not being able to build a reliable waitstaff. There were many of them in … Continue reading RetComLife – Info About Waitstaffs
As what happens to most of us, life turns on moments. There is that time when we clearly see that our future is about to dramatically change due to one moment in time. I can cite six clear times when … Continue reading Life Turns On Moments…
It’s time for another Aspie post here on RJsCorner. This one is about Aspie obsessions. I’m sure I have posted about this before, but I don’t specifically remember it. So, I will give you a brief story about Aspies and … Continue reading I Just Couldn’t Help Myself
I’m sure you, to one degree or another, likely agree with the title of this post. Old people are simply not tech-savvy to any degree. When I suggested to the management here at my RetCom (retirement community) home that we … Continue reading Myth #37 – Old People Don’t Do On-Line
There seems to be a very basic problem in our society today, and that is our ability to listen to each other. I chose the graphic above for this post because it reminded me of the basset hound who was … Continue reading The Power of Listening…
I can only say one thing about the title above. GET OVER IT I know all you Millennials and GenZers are used to getting all us Baby Boomers savings for free, but I have to inform you that is not … Continue reading PANIC!! – The Interest Rates Are Above 3%!!
I took this picture a few weeks ago when I was visiting the Finger Lakes region of New York. I kinda think it deserves an Arsty status, and the grapes were delicious. Continue reading Oh, The Finger Lakes…
To me, the statement “Let nature take its course” is kinda synonymous with “It’s in God’s hands”. Saying that seems to put some people at ease for not doing something personally to solve the problems of the world. Another is … Continue reading If We Let Nature Take Its Course, We Would All Be Dead of Cholera or COVID
As most of my regular readers know, I am currently focusing my studies on among other things, philosophy. I know that is pretty boring stuff to most of you, so I promise I won’t do too many posts on that … Continue reading Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post about trying to start up a new activity here in my RetCom (retirement community) that is focused toward us guys. Yesterday I talked about two possibilities: woodworking and model building. Today’s post is … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men: Part 3 – Finally, The Project
I have been in my RetCom home for 14 months now, and am slowly making some friends here. Being deaf and having Aspie traits has made that process difficult as it has for most everything in my last 35 years. … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men: Part 2 -Let’s Build Stuff”
Before I get into the basic idea for this 3-day series about Retirement Community Life, I need to give you a little basic background. “Just the facts” as Joe Friday used to say on the TV show Dragnet. Most RetComs … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men Part 1: Just The Facts…
I have visited over 40 State Capitals in my travels around the U.S. and this is one of my favorite pictures. It is from the Capital Building of Connecticut in Hartford. I visited there during my recent trip through that … Continue reading EPS – Favorites
Progress has been slow in this endeavor to learn how to sketch. Maybe I am too impatient to wait out being accomplished at it. Or perhaps I just don’t think I will, with the time left for me, ever be … Continue reading Artsy Saturday – Learning To Sketch Lesson- An Update
