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Half-Empty or Half-Full? What’s Your Worldview?

Posted on March 8, 2025 by mitchteemley

Worldviews dominate our era. The motto of the present time could be, “Everyone’s worldview is valid, only mine is valider.” The old glass-is-half-empty/glass-is-half-full metaphor seems like an effective way of “glass-ifying” some prominent worldviews: Optimism – The glass is ½ … Continue reading →

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A Brief Conversation With My Daughter

Posted on September 12, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Sheesh! You’re online all day doing that ‘social networking’ thing! Why don’t you go outside and get some fresh air? Don’t you have any real friends?” “These are my real friends! Stop bugging me! You just don’t understand my generation!” … Continue reading →

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The Seven Stages of Adulthood

Posted on January 17, 2024 by mitchteemley

Why are there so many names for the different stages of life from birth through teens (baby, toddler, pre-schooler, kindergartner, grade-schooler, pre-teen, tweener) and almost none for the 60+ years that follow? It’s not fair! I mean, you’re not just … Continue reading →

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55 Years Ago Today

Posted on June 7, 2023 by mitchteemley

Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968. Much more has been written about the death of his older brother John F. Kennedy. But the death of Bobby, our once-and-future president, had even more impact on my generation than JFK’s. … Continue reading →

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Things Change

Posted on May 23, 2022 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Boomers (bought stamps for 5¢) “Well, my baby, she wrote me a letter.” Gen-X (bought stamps for 18¢) “You must lick ’em, lick ’em good!” Millennials (bought stamps for 34¢) “You used to lick stamps? Why?” Gen-Z … Continue reading →

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Baby Boomers vs. Gen X vs. Millennials

Posted on December 5, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Gary Gautier of shakemyheadhollow (the lowercaseallruntogether bit was his idea, not mine). Gary “limits” his focus to, as he puts it, “Conceptual spaces: politics, philosophy, art, literature, religion, cultural history.” In other words, he … Continue reading →

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