Monthly Archives: December 2000

If your life is totally dedicated to fulfillment of your desire for More, you will not just feel pain when things go wrong. You will suffer. – Timothy Miller Ahhh, that’s it. All the family medical problems this year have … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a proposal for a Real Joe radio show and it’s starting to look doable. There’s a guy here in Northfield who’s got radio production experience and a professional studio in his house. Yesterday, he agreed to … Continue reading →

Today’s our 27th wedding anniversary. Yep, we got married on New Year’s Eve, 1973, at a marriage mill in LA, primarily so we could escape from my parents and various relatives who were having a hard time accepting that I … Continue reading →

Attention is the intention to avoid unnecessary value judgments about your own experience–both internal and external. – Timothy Miller I went to two holiday parties this week and lots of people spoke to me about what an awful year it … Continue reading →

Confession becomes therapy for some Catholics Man, this brought back the memories. “Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I teased my brother ten times. I had impure thoughts (AKA jacking off) three times. I lied to my parents once.” … Continue reading →

Gallup Poll: Most Admired Men Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter are still on the list, thank God.

Guys keep their traditional cool My sons and I are pretty much like these guys, waiting till the last minute to shop. My wife is already shopping for next year. Viva la difference!

Yale students seeking spiritual sustenance are flocking to a meditative service called Compline Hmmm, I wonder if one of our colleges here in Northfield has tried this? I also wonder whether Real Joe will appeal to this group.

My son read my weblog entry about him from yesterday and told me that he didn’t think I should feel responsible for his problem of occasional angry outburts. He said he thought it was more a result from him being … Continue reading →

Gratitude is the intention to count your blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances. – Timothy Miller Trying to deal with my long-denied anger is a pain. But I … Continue reading →

Essay: Eulogy to My Pappy Dad, since you didn’t regain consciousness by the time you died, I wanted to say goodbye with a little more detail than I did when you were in the hospital… MORE—>>

God has discovered that the best way to punish a man for his sins is to give him too much of what he wants. – Gulliver’s Travels May you get what you want. – Oriental curse Beware of what you … Continue reading →

I grabbed a book on the way out of my office this morning, intending to peruse it for possible Joe To Go quotes. Traveling Mercies – Some thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott. It’s not a book of quotes, but … Continue reading →

I spent most of the time with my son yesterday talking about our family therapy session. He seemed very interested in hearing about my anger, in how I was mean to the dog and what my homework assignment was. He … Continue reading →

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant, to being aware of being aware. – Maya Angelou It’s easy to be caught up in cultural and family tides as well as my own individual mental tides … Continue reading →

I’m having coffee with one of my sons in about 30 minutes. It usually helps to do a little mental preparation ahead of time whenever I meet with my kids 1 to 1 since, like my dad, I otherwise have … Continue reading →

It was about as good a xmas as I could have hoped for. I didn’t know how to resolve the problem of my brother and his family suddenly not coming because of his not wanting to leave my mother alone … Continue reading →

I’m going to a party tomorrow night and many people will be asking what I’m up to, workwise. I’ve got a Real Joe blurb that I use and lately, I’ve been adding that I’m currently out of money and hanging … Continue reading →

If you are what you do, and then you don’t, you aren’t. – Robert Subby This would normally mean to me that what I do for a job should not be my whole life. “I’m a human being, not a … Continue reading →

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. – G. K. Chesterton This is not about doing dangerous hobbies that prove my manhood. “Careless of his … Continue reading →

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau The castle of Real Joe that I’ve built in my … Continue reading →

Today, my wife Robbie did one of those little things that goes a long way to making our marriage work. A week or so ago, we had an argument about some damn thing, I don’t remember what. One of the … Continue reading →

I arise in the morning, torn between the desire to improve (save) the world, and a desire to enjoy (savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E. B. White I’m not so sure I do … Continue reading →

The great corrupter of public man is the ego… Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson I’m not a public man by any stretch, though I suppose to some extent, we all are. But … Continue reading →

These quotes about success and failure that I’m using for Joe-to-Go seem to keep popping up from the pages of my quote books, but the truth is, I latch on to them when I see them. I need all the … Continue reading →