Self-Control

Joining Forces against a Common Enemy

Since we crowd together to spread it, we need to join forces to vanquish it. Like it or not, this strain of the coronavirus is going to drastically change the way we live our lives. It’s started already. We can’t avoid it, and the transformation is going to be drastic, even historic. It has the dual potential of tearing us apart and bringing us together. I’m rooting for the latter. At last count, as I am writing [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:01+00:00March 11, 2020|1918, Coronavirus, Fear, Politics, Public Health, Sacrifices, Self-Control, Spanish Influenza, World War I, Wyalusing Life|

Confessions of a Sleep Lover

I like sleeping. There, I admitted it. I’m tired of being ashamed of what is actually a noble pursuit and something at which I excel. It’s not that I sleep more than everyone else, but I do it so well and hate to give it up in the morning. One learned 17th Century author, Sir Thomas Browne, compared sleep to a death that we experience daily and, like death, it is something from which we may never emerge. You know [...]

By Jeremy21|2022-01-24T09:10:40+00:00July 28, 2015|Aging, Baby Boomers, Extremes, Health, Marriage, Self-Control, Sleep, Social Issues, Willpower|