Category Archives: Real Joe

A different kind of Thanksgiving is in the works for us this year. Two of my three sons have steady girlfriends who we’ve not yet met and they’ll be joining us for the weekend… this weekend, since one couple can’t … Continue reading →

My buddy Rick and I were discussing the different approaches to retirement that we see people taking. Here’s his guiding quote: Interest is the key to life Interest is the clue Interest is the drum and fife And any God … Continue reading →

Two new posts to my EgoOrgasms.com weblog: one on reviewing tech gadgets, the other on reading a motorcycle magazine.

My teenage daughter passed her driver’s test today… her second try. It’s odd to feel parental pride when your kid does something that millions of kids do. But it’s a milestone in her life nonetheless, and one that I played … Continue reading →

Hippies, Yuppies, Bobos and Stickies (Seniors Toiling Indefinitely): More older people are sticking to the job. I’m likely to need to keep working well past the usual retirement age, given my lack of financial prowess to-date. But my goal is … Continue reading →

I don’t currently own a street bike — I borrow them from sympathetic buddies once or twice a year — but I subscribe to Cycle World and try to keep up all-things motorcycle-related. So when I’m perusing the mag and … Continue reading →

The cool factor. This phrase jumps out at me whenever I’m reading a review about something — usually a tech gadget of some kind — as I try to reach a decision about what to buy. This week, I’ve been … Continue reading →

I took an unscheduled break in postings here to both work on my Small Business Blogging book and launch my companion site to Real Joe. I’m calling it Ego Orgasms: One guy’s pursuit of mistaken mental pleasures. [Expired domain]

I’ve been thinking more about how it helps to think of God as a force, a law of the universe, much like gravity… and what problems are created when we think of God as a Being, no matter how Supreme. … Continue reading →

Real Live Preacher’s blog is getting to be so popular that it’s creating a temptation. He writes: “You know, it would be so easy to let this blog be the biggest thing in my life. So easy. I love to … Continue reading →

Chuck, of The World According To Chuck, finds a metaphor: “But I’m stronger now, in an essential way. I’ve reached 45 years just in time to figure out who I am, or might be, and my father is dying. His … Continue reading →

Kent Nerburn on A writer’s voice: “What I thought I might offer you tonight is a glimpse of two of the voices in which I have recently been writing… And if you are someone who writes yourself, or dreams of … Continue reading →

A guy named John Gilliam has just launched a reflective weblog about his life called John of God’s Debris. He writes in a tone I can hear. See his first two posts about his marriage, here and here. I’ve added … Continue reading →

I’m on the stair climber machine at my local club. In walks a guy who’s a much better racquetball player than me, one who I play occasionally and who always trounces me. I say hi to him and he says … Continue reading →

It’s been a little over a month since my ACL surgery. When people I’ve not seen for a while ask me how I’m doing, I say “I’m healing” which prompts them to ask what happened, which then gives me the … Continue reading →

In 1991, I stumbled across the book Coming to Life: Traveling the Spiritual Path in Everyday Life by Polly Berrien Berends. These words caught my eye, and I was shocked. I was forty-two at the time. “At the age of … Continue reading →

Amazon.com has a new feature called Search Inside the Book which allows for the searching of words or phrases in the text of many books. Doing a book search for the phrase “ego orgasm” brings up up twelve titles, all … Continue reading →

I’m not sure where I first heard the term “ego orgasm.” Googling the phrase comes up with only a dozen or so references, none of them familiar. The plural, “ego orgasms,” only brings up one reference. The fact that there … Continue reading →

Tonight my sons are coming down for dinner and then our whole family is going to play Cashflow 101, the financial literacy game by Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki. I never learned about money from my parents, and … Continue reading →

This week I got a little involved in an issue before our local school board and one of their sponsored charter schools that my daughter attends. I talked to my state representative (former school board member) about it and made … Continue reading →

God doesn’t test people like this, he said. But he does bestow blessings to mitigate the hurt and sustain those affected by tragedy. “You take the blessings in whatever package, say thank you and you use them,” said Swedberg, who … Continue reading →

Do we thank God that he wasn’t killed? Or is God trying to tell Mel Gibson something? Article: Jesus actor struck by lightning twice

Stuart Greene’s column in the Nov. issue of The Rake is must-read: Dancing With Myself: Why must married men continue to abuse themselves? “… the water was rushing, a scented candle, a little bath oil, things were swimming along nicely, … Continue reading →

Ego Orgasms. It’s soon to be a book. A radio show. A magazine. A major motion picture. Well, maybe, but for now, it’s a weblog. From the creator of Real Joe.

My sons Tyson and Graham are rehabbing the bathroom and kitchen in Tyson’s house in St. Paul. No minor project, this. They’ve ripped everything out, right down to the studs and are completely redoing the plumbing and electrical. Here’s a … Continue reading →