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Me and My Self-fulfilling Prophecy
“A self-fulfilling prophecy is a sociological term used to describe a prediction that causes itself to become true.” – Simple Psychology. It was 1987, I was crying in Professor William Dorman’s office, and I had just told him, my Academic Advisor, that I was going to drop out of California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) for… Read more
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Observations From the Mat #12: My Quest for Adjustments
I picked up my coffee order from a young, attractive female barista. She had noticed I came into her shop with a mat over my shoulder, so she asked how I liked the yoga studio in the same shopping center as the coffee shop. I told her that, aside from it being a chain—with the… Read more
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Checkmated by My Own Brain: A Six-Sentence Story
I am horrible at solving puzzles; my remedial mind has a hard time with puzzle games like Sudoku, the NYT’s Wordle, and Connections. When I was a kid and liked to watch Batman with Adam West, I used to get lost when The Riddler (played by Frank Gorshin) would riddle the Caped Crusader, and our… Read more
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The Beautiful Word: Repost
This was originally published back in April of 2017, when I couldn’t get enough of yoga: my wife saw the transformation of our bookshelves from “Carol’s Reading Group History” to Jack’s “Who needs to practice yoga when you can just buy books on the subject!” Namaste: (pronounced \NAH-muh-stay). The word comes from Sanskrit and literally means “bowing… Read more
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The MAGA Yogi: A Six Sentence Story
I was rolling out my mat at the local yoga studio when the woman next to me said, “Did you know they took down the Gay flag sign on the window of the coffee house across the parking lot? More of that anti-DEI crap, I guess.” It seems everybody in the studio knows I have… Read more
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