My latest pet peeve: “It makes my heart happy.” Or “My heart is so happy.” Folks, hearts are muscles. (nice presentation on the cardiovascular system that… Read More »It makes my heart happy: Hearts made happy??
Yes, this is a rather spiteful revenge blog post… but it’s true!! Ebay sellers using Amazon do misrepresent items! The story: A week or so… Read More »Ebay sellers using Amazon might misrepresent items
Yesterday we started to see calls for Hillary Clinton to challenge the election results in the mainstream press. I had already read this piece (You’re… Read More »Recount the votes so Trump can be President (& we can stop listening to all the reasons Clinton lost)
How to write a novel… I was going to use On Writing for a title, but then I remembered that Stephen King had taken it.… Read More »How I write a novel (with suggestions on how to do nanowrimo)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtwlMuHPv9M] clap you hands! This song has always bothered me. I felt pressured to be happy when I was a child, and when I was a… Read More »If you're happy and you know it…
One of the most common self-report measures of empathy is the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1980). Sample item: “I sometimes find it difficult to see… Read More »the “other guy’s” point of view
I have revisited this in September, 2019, after splitting my multi-purpose blog into three. This blog about lions, prostitutes, empathy gone awry, and sheeple, definitely… Read More »Lions, prostitutes, virtual bandwagons, & empathy gone awry
I am giving serious thought to becoming an elf. “Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.” So… Read More »On becoming an elf and the difference between philosophy & psychology, with music
I fell in love with Madrid the first year I spent in Spain. I was living in Palencia, a small city in Castilla-Leon whose residents… Read More »Madrid, miscellanea
