Will’s Thoughts – I met Crazy Lady on a online personals website. I reckon that our world’s changed a heap in the last century, though our basic nature remains remarkably unchanged. I recently thought about how Crazy Lady and I met, and I realized that without the technology of today, our paths would probably have never crossed. My parents still …
Will’s Thoughts – Help! There Is A Huge Hole In Our Living Room Floor The Conversation Pit (pictures below) Crazy Lady and I have a habit of doing most things in life ‘backwards’, or ‘differently’. We had kids, then met and fell in love. We raised the kids in 1,100 square foot rentals until they graduated, then we bought a …
Will’s Thoughts – Movember Every November, men all across the nation demonstrate the incredible power of male unity, and, every November the nation’s women secretly think ‘typical men, their mind’s always in the same place’. But as hair sprouts like facial antlers, it’s all about the real reason for growing our mustaches, to bring attention to the peril of prostate …
They say only a mother could love a slug: One of our kids asked me why I call Cathie ‘Crazy Lady’. Now before all you do-gooders bust out in protest and set up tents in our yard, this ain’t about mental illness, verbal abuse or damaged self-esteem. I call her Crazy Lady, because it’s her Indian name (which I gave …
Pecker (so named for his attitude) is a squirrel who has graciously decided to let us share his territory. But it was not always so. It all began three years ago when we bought our house. The first indication we were not alone was a scratching on the other side of the ceiling during the night, which needless to say, …
Will’s Thoughts On Multiracial Children And Multiculturalism Is multiculturalism really racial profiling? In an honest effort to do the right thing, sometimes we still end up doing the wrong thing. It doesn’t mean that we’re bad people, it just means that we’re human. We become inhuman when we refuse to change things we know to be wrong, or chose to …
Will’s Thoughts – How Society Continues To Pay For Those Who Leech I guess someone has to come out and say it, so I will. In our rush to help all of our down and out, funding for those who truly need it is disappearing at an alarming rate of speed. Millions and millions of dollars of funding for our …
Will’s Thoughts – Staying Young Forever By Joining the Greenagers! The first half of my life I was told to act my age. So far, in the second half of my life, I’m hearing the same darn thing! To date, I ain’t figured out exactly what the heck ‘act your age’ means. To me, when somebody tells me to act …
Will’s Thought’s – I’m sorry for things that I have not done for senior citizens. I drove past the cemetery on a cold, gray blustery day, and saw an old woman kneeling beside a grave. As the wind whipped her scarf, her concentration never faltered, her gaze was fixed far beyond our world. For a brief second, empathy flooded my …
Will’s Thoughts – What We Mean When We Say That’s Okay Why is it such a big part of our nature to say “That’s okay”, when it’s really not okay? In fact, we use ‘that’s okay’ in a number of strange ways! ‘That’s okay’ may mean that the mistake we just made wasn’t that bad, “That’s okay, it’s only a …
Will’s Thoughts – Beliefs And Being A Belief-O-Holic Hi, my name is Will, and I am a beliefoholic. Beliefs have always been a problem for me. I used beliefs to feel better, to ease my pain, and to end my loneliness. Sometimes I believed in public, but most often I believed alone. I have suffered horribly, and caused others to …
Will’s Thoughts – Being So Smart That You Outsmart Yourself Over the years, I’ve known a few times when I was so darn smart, that I outsmarted myself. I reckon it ain’t something to be real proud of, but as they say, ‘manure manifests’. The other evening I was sitting here, ankle deep in thought, watching a television show about …
Will’s Thoughts – War On Drugs And Thugs Is A Limp Wristed Action In my opinion, Canada either needs to declare ‘war’ on illegal drugs, or give them to users as legal prescriptions. For decades we’ve heard about what is called a war on drugs, but really, all it has been is a limp wristed ‘military action’ on minor thugs. …
Will’s Thoughts – Thinking Things Through Before Doing Them I reckon there is virtue in thinking things through before doing them: I have learned that the formula for human activity is 96% action, 4% thought. Now, I’m a big fan of ‘gittin’ things dun’, but not before thinking them through a bit. It took decades for me to arrive at …
Will’s Thought’s – Tips On How To Have Fun With Telemarketers Crazy Lady spent last week off in Edmonton visiting her kin, which, given what I did to the house the last time she was away, must be a nail-biting experience for her. For me, it has given great credibility to my skill at deceiving myself into thinking that I’m …
