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I’M BACK

RJ Walters

I can’t tell you how many “Simplify” signs I have in my small one-bedroom apartment here at my RetCom. I have never been much of a collector, but the “Simplify” message has always attracted me. I have finally decided to simplify my blog presence. For the last two weeks I have spent hours and hours struggling with how I will go forward with my blogging. I initially thought it was necessary to start fresh and throw away all of my posts here at RJsCorner. After several attempts of doing that, I have decided that would only cause a lot of … Continue reading I’M BACK

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Creativity

RJ Walters

I am finally convinced that I am a pretty creative person as my mind constantly wanders into unimagined areas of thought. In my retirement years, I have done a pretty good job of cultivating my creative processes.  But I am always looking for ways to unleash my creativity to new areas and levels. When I ran across this article from the New York Times it gave me a different way to think about creativity. We all have fantasies or, if you prefer, ideas. I will give them a different word: “Seeds.” These seeds are the germ-line of books, short stories, songs, the … Continue reading Creativity

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Writers Should Make People Uncomfortable..

RJ Walters

One of the axioms of  writing is that it should make people uncomfortable. If it doesn’t then you are not stretching the horizons of those reading your words.  Even before I heard this it was in my heart. One of the foundations of RJsCorner is that I try to get people to think outside their boxes to other possibilities.  I am constantly looking for ways to stretch my horizons and I think everyone else should do the same. Being stuck in place is one of the primary causes of where we are today. Why do I think that maybe I … Continue reading Writers Should Make People Uncomfortable..

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I Am Just Not a “Niche” Guy…

RJ Walters

  For my weekly bio post I thought I would talk a little about my blogging processes in particular but more generally about my thought processes which due to Aspergers is probably different than yours. Many of the more successful blogs around the Internet are niche blogs, that is they concentrate on one particular topic. Many that I read are of the retirement genre. Their readers pretty much know what they are going to get when they go to their sites. As they say like-minded people like to congregate together, especially during these trying times so they don’t want any surprises and … Continue reading I Am Just Not a “Niche” Guy…

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Old Guys Just Aren’t Very Popular on the Web…

RJ Walters

Being the beginning of a new year I am going to try and get some things off my chest so maybe I won’t fret about them all year. This is one of those posts. Take it with an ounce of truth and a pound of jest. :) Maybe I should erase my “About Me” page here as it probably quickly pushes some people away from my blog site.  If I made up a story about being  a troubled teenager or maybe a struggling artist I would probably get more readers and especially more “likes”. I run across so many blogs … Continue reading Old Guys Just Aren’t Very Popular on the Web…

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Looking Back…

RJ Walters

Here it is the end of another year and time to look back to how I spent it.  So here goes: Blog wise I made a decision about mid year to start things over again. It might not have been too obvious to some of my readers here but I abandoned my old blog of five years and moved it here in order to start fresh. I also wanted to incorporate the five blogs I was then running into one and to do some basic changes.  With that decision I left 300+ hard won followers on the old site. Some … Continue reading Looking Back…

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Rising Again…

RJ Walters

This blog has been in a three month hiatus due to me just getting tired of the political dialog. I have made some basic changes to prevent that from happening again.  One thing is that while I will continue to allow comments, at least for now, I will not reply to many of them.  I know this is not good blog etiquette but that is the way it has to be for me to continue here and keep my sanity. This is my longest running blog and has over 2,000 posts so it has become an important part of who I … Continue reading Rising Again…

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An Audience of One….

RJ Walters

Those of us who blog have many tools at our disposal to see just how many people are reading what we write. Those statistics are always lurking on the edges of the page we use to generate our daily posts. They seem to be whispering “look at me”. How can we not do push the buttons? There are also hundreds of books out there telling you what you need to do to increase your post visits. They tell you to blog about niches where others don’t and you will be toward the top of the search engine listing in that category. They … Continue reading An Audience of One….

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Falling By The Wayside…

RJ Walters

It seems that many of my blog friends are falling by the wayside lately. They are slowly disappearing from cyberspace. I used to read a dozen or so blog posts every day, now I read less than a handful. Some who seem to have maybe a thousand followers or more are calling it quits. I wonder what is happening? Many of these past blogging friends say it is just time to move on to other things. Some I imagine expected to make spending money from their writing and that just didn’t happen to any degree. Some maybe had grandiose thoughts … Continue reading Falling By The Wayside…

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Best Of Times, Worst Of Times….

RJ Walters

One of the first books I read as a young man was Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. The opening words of that book has been in my mind since that time. It would not be the last book by Dickens that I would read. Many of his books were about social reform. When his father was thrown into debtor’s prison Charles had to step forward. I think maybe my avid social conscience was at least partially formed by my early exposure to his writing. But as usual, the main topic of this post is not about Dickens but about the … Continue reading Best Of Times, Worst Of Times….

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Why I Blog – The Real Reasons…

RJ Walters

The last post I gave you some reasons why they say people blog and how I fit those categories.  This time I am going to give the three main reasons why I blog.    Some might think the contents of RJ’s Corner and my other blogs are a mishmash of topics but I think they hold a few of common threads. 1)  I blog to give a voice, even if it is a very small one, to those who are the most affected by our collective decisions but for various reasons have little time, resources, or experience to have their input heard. … Continue reading Why I Blog – The Real Reasons…

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Why Blog???

RJ Walters

  My young Romanian blogger friend Cristian Mihai stated recently that one of the reasons he blogs is because he is lonely. Another is that he has to blog/write.  To not do so would deny his very existence. After reading those words and others from various bloggers I have started to think at a deeper, more fundamental level, just why do why I put so much energy into blogging. Some Blog for fame. My readership is meager by many standards so I do not blog for fame. Fame seems to corrupt most that accomplish it anyway so maybe the lack … Continue reading Why Blog???

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My Blogging Philosophy….

RJ Walters

I will be as honest as I can. I will sometimes tell you the weirdest truths I won’t talk down to you I will assume that you are just as smart and compassionate as I am I will not scream or rant with the unreal belief that doing so will change your mind. Sometimes I wonder why I blog so much. Is it to soothe my ego? Is is to gain fame? Is it to get you to understand some alternate truth? Is it just to pass the time of day? In reality it is probably a little bit of … Continue reading My Blogging Philosophy….