Monthly Archives: September 2002

Ellen Goodman’s September column All the love that’s fit salutes the NY Times for publishing a same-sex union announcement on its wedding pages — two high-society guys from New York. Cool. This has to be inspiring to gay couples everywhere. … Continue reading →

The cycle trip’s a go. My daughter’s knee was dislocated and she chipped a bone… probably surgery next week, but aok for now. So the three of us are heading out this morning at 7:30 am. Hotter ‘n hell already, … Continue reading →

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it. – Soren Kierkegaard Today, I’m trying to remember to enjoy the sweet anticipation of this weekend’s bike trip.

I’m borrowing a Beemer this weekend and heading for the twisty backroads of SW Wisconsin and NE Iowa with my friend Jim. It’s a little rerun of the first Real Joe Motorcycle Tour that I did back in early November, … Continue reading →

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Yeah. And my desire for More tends to quiet down, too.

Labyrinths are booming these days. Carleton College here in Northfield now has two of them, a portable canvas labyrinth in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and an outdoor one on Stewsie Island. I walked the one on Stewsie this week, the … Continue reading →

The AP story on a research study released this week was titled: Teen girls who are close to mom less likely to have early sex. “Teenage girls who have close relationships with their mothers wait longer to have sex for … Continue reading →

How can you stay 100% true to the intention, while 100% unattached to the result? – Dan DeMuth I pulled that quote from a Sunday Star Tribune article titled The golf whisperer about Inner Circle member Dan DeMuth and his … Continue reading →

I’m on the alert for inane, God-related weather quotes after a tornado demolished two churches and 60 other buildings yesterday in Ladysmith, Wisconsin. “…A few blocks west, where the Ladysmith Baptist Church once stood on west Third Street, a Scripture … Continue reading →

Today’s Arlo & Janis cartoon is classic Arlo, a letch for his own wife. My hero.

If you don’t execute your ideas, they die. – Roger von Oech I consider the beginning of September as the anniversary for the launch Real Joe, though I don’t really have an exact date. A check of the blog archive … Continue reading →

A NY Times Q & A by that title with Phyllis Chesler, feminist psychotherapist, founder of the Association for Women in Psychology, and author of recently published “Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman.” Some out-of-context quotes to pique your interest, but read … Continue reading →