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Make each day

“Make each day your masterpiece.”John Wooden

The unexamined life

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates

All successful people are big dreamers

“All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” Brian Tracy

The struggle for Enlightenment

“The struggle for Enlightenment, and why so many give up, is that once you liberate yourself from one prison, you find yourself in another. One of the most important attributes of a person on this journey is to have immense perseverance. Never give up.” Hxni

Surprise

If you're gonna do it, do with style.

Life is short, be happy.

Lesson

Show yourself!

A little stressed

Life lesson

"So and so made me so angry"

That's not true. You made yourself angry. Nobody makes you angry. It is an emotion you used. It was you who decided to become angry and it was you who decided to response in anger.

Never give up control.

Try it

The buddy system

Life lesson

Center your thoughts on the solution and not on the problem.

You look fine

Life lesson

Know when to let go. If it's depressing you, dragging you down into the dumps, review the reasons and if it isn't the right reasons, get rid of it. Push it out of your life. The negative builds inside your head and will eventually block out all the wonders and magnificent things around you. Don't let that happen. Be aware of it. If it doesn't move you forward or add joy to your life, get rid of it.

Why?

50

Life lesson

Once you get the sense that someone is avoiding you, stay away from them, in fact, run away from them as fast as you can because if that person won't confront you with his or her problem that they have with you, they are going to become a negative issue in your very life at some point. Take them out of your life before that happens.

Life lesson

Change it. Live your passions.

If you don't have enough time in your life, turn off the TV. It's amazing how much time that will clear up.

Unhappy in your job? Change jobs, or at the least, plan to change jobs. A paycheck isn't worth your mental health.

Stop looking for the love of your life. That's just dumb. Love takes time and the love of your life takes a lifetime to develop.

Our Culture

The way you see yourself

I'm a dog person

Ho's

Year One, 1955: Teens race cars

A different parking lot

Life lesson

Listen to people. It's a difficult thing to master, but try. But always remember that the things that aren't being said are the most important part of the communication. Never give up control.

It's, like, a fact, you know?

Life lesson

The world will try to place limitations on you and often they'll succeed in that quest. Don't let it happen. Break out of those limitations and any other negative thing that holds you back and then watch how your world will transform.Never give up control and there will be many willing to take from you.

No more coffee for this guy

Emerson Said It: Hamatreya

Yeah!

Not that guy

You.

Be happy. The entire universe is here for you.

So on the creep scale of one to ten...................

What happens when my blood sugar drops and I need sweets

Life

What its like when I get a good idea for a story

This is what morning are for me

You don't find David Sedaris wonderful? Okay fine. Maybe this will change your mind.

Life lesson to live by

In today’s America where the definition of family changes with divorce and remarriage, remember this; Blood makes you related but loyalty makes you family.

Happiness is Julie Andrews singing in the Alps with a machine gun

Lesson for a happy life and fulfilled life.

Everyone is attracted to those who want them to grow and become better than they are. So encourage the people around you to grow and be happy when they do grow. Take note of it and tell them you are proud of them. Wouldn't you want the same for yourself?

Lesson for a hapy and fulfilled life

Aspire in your life to be a giver. Aspire to be a person who gives inspiration, encouraging words, love, warmth and strength. It’s not an easy thing to be but it is an important thing to be because there are not enough people like that on our planet that is overrun with critics.

Never another wirter

“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.” ― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout

To my friends....

A referral point for my friends (personnel friends, meaning people I know in my personnel life) who want me to “Take a look at my stuff.” For years I’ve said sure, I’ll look at it, meaning edit it. But I have always forewarned them that I take the processes seriously and I won’t pull any punches and not to get angry with me. They always, always, always assure me that they want to a professional edit and that I shouldn’t pull any punches just because we’re friends. Then I edit their work and they get angry at me. So here’s what we’re going to do. If you want me to give my opinion on your writing or edit your work, the charge is $50.00 an hour with a four hour minimum. That should stop most of you from asking me to look at your work and while preserving our friendship.

Why this blog is here.

I am largely self-educated, and this blog is continuation of that education. I have an MFA, but that doesn’t have much to do with an education, not the kind I’m talking about. An advanced degree means I am able to follow instruction.

Never ending self-education means I adore knowledge and enlightenment of both the ordinary and the odd and that’s what this blog is about. It is by me, written for my benefit. You are more than welcomed to drop by as often and for as long as your heart desires.

John William Tuohy

I was born and raised in Connecticut and now live in rural West Virginia with my wife, Mary, and my dog Eli.

I hold an AA and MA in literature and an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. I spent most of my career as a political consultant and hated every living second of it.

I am produced and award-winning playwright. (Cyberdate, The Hannigans of Beverly, etc.)

I am the author of 12 books on traditional organized crime, an autobiography (No Time to Say Goodbye) two books of short stories (Short Stories from a Small Town, Washington Behind the Monuments) a novella (Imago Summer, 1971) and several books on Connecticut history. I proud to be the historian of Ansonia Connecticut. I sit on the board of Mt. St. John's School.

I occasionally and reluctantly work as an editor but only when I need money to travel.

I am an accomplished amateur photographer, a frustrated painter and not a half-bad gardener and I cook. I collect coins, stamps and political memorabilia. I love film so much that I built a large theater in my home. (I also wrote "On the Waterfront: the Making of a Great Amercian film")

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