Category Archives: Real Joe

My birthday dinner with my sibs didn’t happen as planned last week as my sister got sick. We’ve rescheduled for next week. My wife challenged my Ego Orgasms blog post last week re: my rationale for not participating more with … Continue reading →

DL writes: “… tonight I was at church rehearsing with a trumpet quartet. I’m an average player, but the guys I play with are excellent. I also play a pretty decent piano, but of course I know many who are … Continue reading →

My response [expired link] to a dad who’s struggling with his mistaken thinking about his son’s performance.

Real Live Preacher is working on a book, based in part on stuff he’s posted to his weblog. Which means he’s got a new hat to wear that’s he’s not entirely comfortable with: Here, at the end of a long … Continue reading →

On the my Ego Orgasm blog [defunct], I posted this definition last November: An ego orgasm is whatever I do or happens in life that I think gives me a psychological boost but that turns out to be false. Mistaken. … Continue reading →

As part of my day job, I was just invited to attend an upcoming conference in Mpls titled Trend Agenda. One of the organizers is Cecily Sommers, Principal Strategist, UNIT 1. When I went to her company’s website, I found … Continue reading →

As I was struggling to do a complete 555 routine yesterday, I noticed that many of thoughts that came galloping into my head were of the “shit I haven’t done but should do” variety. I then remembered this paragraph from … Continue reading →

I’ve not gotten to writing up Part II of my transcript (see Part I) but I don’t seem to be making much headway in the past week. My busy, noisy mind just keeps working overtime. And while I thought I … Continue reading →

My physical therapist told me I could mess around on the racquetball court by myself, as long as I didn’t swing hard, torqueing my knee. But as my knee started to feel better and get stronger, I kept doing more … Continue reading →

I have dinner with my sibs tonight… older sister and younger brother. For the past two years or so, we’ve been getting together for a long dinner 3-4 times per year, just to talk and be with one another. We … Continue reading →

My buddy Curt steered me to a new book called The Progress Paradox : How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse whose author, Gregg Easterbrook, was recently on MPR’s Midmorning. He also has a weblog on the New Republic … Continue reading →

In the movie The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise’s character learns from his Samurai captors how the state of “no-mind” helps him be a better fighter. In Eckhart Tolle’s book Practicing the Power of Now, he puts no-mind to use for … Continue reading →

I got this email from a regular reader. Howdy Griff. I’m wondering if you would do me a favor. I’ve written a little script of a bedtime story that I would like to record and have my oldest, anxious son … Continue reading →

Time’s cover story this week: The Power of Love. I’ve not yet read it, but I notice that they use the word “sex” in the URL, not love. Shocking!

It’s been another unplanned hiatus from Real Joe and Ego Orgasms. It seems to happen every few months, usually a combination of things that take priority over blogging. The details will emerge over several posts. I’ve been intrigued with trying … Continue reading →

New Year’s Eve was our thirtieth wedding anniversary. Since the last ten have increasingly been blissful — in part because we’ve worked at it — I’m kind of proud of us. Our kids took us out to dinner and then … Continue reading →

In the Jan. issue of The Rake: Sex & the Married Man: Lady Remington. By Stuart Greene. Ladies, how do you like your men? I realize variety is the spice of life. Some women like burly football-players, some like ’em … Continue reading →

Like a few million others, I’m reading The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. US News & World Report did a cover story a couple of weeks ago titled Jesus in America that details the phenomenon around the book. (Full text … Continue reading →

Today’s Arlo ‘n Janis is on the familiar theme of husbands not listening to their wives. I get particularly deaf during the holidays and this week even my daughter said to my wife, “Dad doesn’t listen.” I’m generally okay when … Continue reading →

Ron describes a road rage incident between himself on a Harley and a guy in a pickup truck, thirty years ago. I risked my life to make a point? Ego? Whose? Not mine. Sure it was. You and your buddy … Continue reading →

I got in the middle of a conflict between a local unit of goverment and a group of local citizens over a public policy issue. I’m on the board of a community network that has web tools at its disposal … Continue reading →

Stuart Greene’s Sex & The Married Man column for the December issue of The Rake is available: End of Discussion: Why are married women afraid to talk about sex? Here’s my letter to the editor: Stuart Greene accurately describes the … Continue reading →

By staying healthy, parents give a gift of great value by Karin Winegar. “Our parents have given us a gift: not our health, but their health. I have come to recognize this as one of the greatest and rarest bequests, … Continue reading →

A new Pissing Match category for Ego Orgasms. First entry: Freeway space cadets.

I’m cruising with the flow of traffic at about 45 MPH, about 3 or 4 carlengths behind the truck in front of me. I glance in the rearview mirrow and notice a guy in a Jeep pulling up close behind … Continue reading →