https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/Jottings and discoveries, if you will. Just keeping my tyoes wet, as it were. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/733087After agonizing for days and weeks, I sent the following message to a fellow Blogit veteran the other day, after she offeed me porfessional help writing an E-Book to try to dip some money ot of that stream. And I quote. "Should I ask for such help in future, remind me that I am telling you now...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/728233Anyone left?https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/718306I read today on Faceboook that our Benzinha, (aka April Romo de Vivar) has succumbed after a long and contentious battle with lung cancer in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Please take the time to read her old posts and her Facebook material as well. She was a passionate pursuer of personal liberties,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/708511And for you lucky ones, Merry Boxing Day as well.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/708345http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6X-qLXycnE&feature=related Holy smokes!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/707909I've been teaching adults in a structured (and non-correctional-facility) setting now for over a year. I have encounteed in myself what seems to be an unreasonably severe reaction to two things (well, three, but number three is unrelated; later, shall we?). What are my nemeses? Use of cell...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/707283Truth is what you discover and can prove and reproduce, or it has been reproduced. Answers are things we get to settle questions. If the truth does not meet the paramters of a question, the question needs to be reframed, or the truth will be discarded. If we ask bad questions, or our leaders set...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/703693Doesn't anyone believe in separation of Church and State? At least some folks are willing to admit they believe government needs religious (their religion) guidance; I admire their honesty, but their naiveté and sometimes vehement vitriol scare the bejesus out of me. Pun intended.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/702278I realize I have been gone, and that is because I have realized that I am not and will not become an author, and my social conspirators have largely disappeared. Life has been very interesting, and spending the couple of hours a night I used to on blogging about it no longer seems as vital. So,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/majroj/693845I challenged one of our emritii to list what she has done for a living over her lifetime, and I extend that challenge here to YOU. What would a list of your life's various occupations (for a living, or at least your only disposable income) include? To salt the pot, mine: Lifeguard/dock hand on a...