Monthly Archives: April 2011

When one of the most important thoughts of my day is “I need to clean the toilets,” all I can say is wow!  Do I have real problems.  I have three toilets in my little house.  Why the heck do I have so many of them?  Some people in the world don’t have any.  A little holeContinue reading “My search for significance…”

There’s a humongous debate taking place in my shrinking brain right now.  Should I eat my lunch (I am salivating like the Pavlovian dogs with no bell around), or just go ahead and start the posting to be published on Tuesday.  The big problema is that it was just now that I decided what the subject matterContinue reading “Never, never, but never, give up…”

This morning, Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 made me ponder on something I read long ago, about Ivan Pavlov.  This Russian doctor was conducting an experiment about training dogs to respond automatically to the ringing of a bell to indicate that the dogs automatically started salivating prior to eating their food.  Through the stimulus of the ringing ofContinue reading “Pavlovian conditioning…and el mango…”

Remember, I always write this post the day before.  Today, April 1st, 2011, hurrah!  I am still here to see another April’s Fool Day!!  Good or bad, I don’t know yet.  I am in very good spirits.  Didn’t go to walk today, too cold and too much stuff to give me the perfect allergy attack.Continue reading “April 1st, I feel good,…tararara…”

Today, March 31st, 2011 I have a monkey on my back.  The animal would just not let me put my thoughts in order.  I really don’t know how to properly channel all ideas for today’s post in both halves of my brain.  I am in a fog.  Isn’t that a pretty picture and good for youContinue reading “Paella of sights and words…”