Bob and Debbie Conroy - Enjoying the Journey Together!

Some just have to be told. Here are my current offerings in a continuing effort to come up with an original thought that might be quotable hundreds of years in the future:  The hardest thing to endure is an obvious truth that others have decided to ignore.  Beyond “Fight or Flight”, when faced with more options, a person tends to freeze. Dust and smoke in the atmosphere create beautiful sunsets and then attack your lungs while you sleep. A well-timed kind word is a precious gift. Just when you have things figured out, it doesn’t matter. Time spent with grandchildren is the big payoff. In a rational world, the self-treatment of depression and anxiety by abusing drugs would only appear in fiction novels and the movies. We build truths out of the bones of those that defy conventional wisdom. Suicide is the ultimate method of reducing one’s carbon footprint, anything short of that is some degree of grandstanding or self-delusion. Ignorance can be replaced with knowl...

Football is like a bad joke with fans (fans is short for fanatics) cheering for their surrogates to inflict brutality on others. Not far removed from the days of the Roman gladiators.  As always, follow the money. It is the advertising dollars spent by the alcohol cartel that provides the money and the spin to keep it going.

I cannot for the life of me recall what teams were in the last Super Bowl, World Series, World Cup or championship games for any other sport. I am just not interested in this type of entertainment. Think of all of the time I have had to learn and master new interests and hobbies! Bliss!

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. December 2006 Debbie and I volunteered to help at the “Jolly Holiday Lights” display. It is a fundraising event for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. I ended up doing two shifts collecting money while Debbie handed out programs and encouraged them to enjoy the lights. I collected money from about 180 cars. The difference in how people interacted with their cars was a fascinating study in human nature. Out of this group of 180 drivers most handled the money transaction as a routine unworthy of any significance. It was as if they were in a foggy dream at a Walmart checkout counter. Several others seemed confused, one was obnoxious, and le...