Category: Thoughts for the curious

After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped.  Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the...

I drove to San Francisco. From Seattle. I intended the trip to occupy two days, but I forgot that I have history driving long distances. For instance……..from San Francisco to Phoenix. Tucson, Arizona to...

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment. John Wooden

You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.     Leo Buscagila

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

We used to sleep at night. No more. Now we stay up to watch late night TV, work on reports due the next day, and finish what we started earlier in the day. Sleep...

Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.    Oscar Wilde

Our destiny is driven by our daily habits.

We know that novelty is good for the brain. It responds favorably. With that in mind, and because I like new, novel, and crazy things, and I hate boredom and predictability, I entered a...