I have forborne from writing in this blog, preferring less visible corners, like MyParagraphs and my off line paper notebook for lack of notability in my everyday musings and general shortage of scribbling ...

As it happens, divine protection can play tricks on you. Naturally, you can't play tricks on it in return, but what you can do is require less statistically impossible miracles by not asking for trouble ...

Yes and no. I've been trying to view some of my pages from a distance and concluded that the overabundance of clergyman's vocabulary required a shy explanation, both to myself and to the poor victims who ...

A few days ago I got my military ID the thing they give you after you've served or, as in my case, after you've jumped through the hoops in order not to serve. I feel pretty ugly about it all. In all ...

Ellipse. My belly is starting to look like one. Come to think of it, many parts of my body are. My face, on the contrary, is giving up its natural form for something more round. I remember in "Over the ...

It feels like the last week has just disappeared out of my life. There's a one word explanation for that Nethack. Once I used to be a passionate gamer. I would spend night after night solving quests ...

Here's the hard question: Can deep, selfless love be an excuse for hurting people? When thinking rationally, sometimes it's obvious we should deny a request when it's harmful for someone in the long run ...

Open Life is a topic I want to spend some of my time on and a state of being I would like to spend much of my life in. What if you made your life completely and utterly open to everyone? Not only high ...

Several people (including me) expressed some interest as to what exactly I am doing these days. My standard answer is "wasting my life", which is pretty much close to the real truth. The problem is my ...

For me the hardest part about overcoming my shortcomings, be it bad habits or something more serious, is recognizing one as such and determining if overcoming it is worth it at all. Actually, I don't think ...