Author: djibouti.jim

Pain, anger and frustration prompt us to lash out. I get it. Emotional circumstances trigger emotional responses. We’re human beings. Emotion is one of the things that sets us apart from every other species breathing the air on this planet. Our ability to reason is the other. It seems we’ve become slaves to our emotions…

“How the hell are you retired at age 50?” I get that question all the time. I didn’t hit the lottery. I didn’t have a long lost ancestor leave me a fortune. I didn’t sell drugs for a year and then walk away clean. It was planned. It was a goal. I never really put…

Drama. It’s damn near everywhere you look anymore. What ever happened to comedy? Everyone always points to political correctness when we talk about the death of comedy, but I really think there’s more to it than that. In 1983, Cheers, Taxi, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, The Jefferson’s, Three’s Company, Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley…

Yeah, Yeah….I get it. We’re the generation who’s got money to spend at this time in history. We’re the advertising and marketing target audience for damn near every product on the shelves. So it only makes sense that they fill their commercials with music from our past. Seems like most of the commercials I see…

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I can’t believe that three years after Kaepernick took a knee we’re still kicking his name around our culture. Had you asked me a couple years ago I’d have sworn to you that nobody would remember who the hell he was by now. But, here we are. That prompted me to dig up something I…

So….a couple years ago, the VA set me up with a chiropractor to help with some lower back pain. I was skeptical, but it really helped. It turned out to be a hip issue instead of my lower back and with a simple adjustment every other month or so, the pain was eliminated for a…

Howdy! This is my first attempt at anything like this. Apparently, it’s been a long time coming. My professors, colleagues and friends have been telling me for years that I need to write on a more professional basis…so here I am. I don’t know how “professional” a blog is, but I felt I needed to…