Who said and what is the source of the observation that the standard theme of a woman's autobiography is venturing out into the world, and the standard theme of a man's autobiography is triumph of the will?
March 2013
- Twitter Shroudedindoubt
Reaction on the fly and announcements of blog articles
My Blogs
- Bag of Worms Yet Words
Philosophical discussion about values - Skin and Bones
My creative interests - Body Parts
Ruminations and rants about my life and times
Start Parts
- Preface to a Personal 1960s Journal
The making of a radical mind - Introduction to My 1980s Journal
Reflections on my life as I enter middle age - What My Body Parts Blog Is About
Returning through doubt to the faith of my forefathers
Parts of Interest
- Top 5 Best List
What landscapes, buildings, movies, etc., impressed me in my youth. - Arrogance (8 articles)
What is arrogance? Am I arrogant? Yes. - Obama, Marxist (17 articles)
Obama's ideological commitment. - Most Influential Books (2 articles)
One list from 1980, one from 2009. - A Primer on America's Economic Crisis (5 articles)
It's not just housing and the banking system. - Life's Illusions (5 articles)
Sex, movies, politics, family life, and cancer - Can There Be A False Religion? (4 articles)
A framework for evaluating Islam's claim to be a religion - The Causes of Obesity (4 articles)
What is obesity, what causes it, is it lack of exercise, whose fault? - Issues of Medicine and Insurance (5 articles)
How to solve California's and America's medical care and cost crisis - President Bush, an Evening at the Coffee Depot, the Homeless Drunk Man
Forgiveness - 9-11 Christmas Letter
To friends and family in December 2001 - Why Have Children?
Some people need convincing - Preparing to Die (3 articles)
How can we prepare? - This Objectionable Man
I am an objectionable person - When Is Death Not Pointless?
Death in combat is not pointless - Military Service
What being classified 4F did to my views of war - Friendship (2 articles)
Friendship is not what most people think it is--or want it to be. - My First Time
Yes, my first time for that - Burdens of Women (3 articles)
Caretaking, pregnancy, men - Thinking About Abortion (7 articles)
Why women get abortions; devaluing women; influence of men; family formation, my girl friend's abortion
From My 1980s Journal
- Oh California! (9 articles)
How God Answered My Prayer - Politics Is A Window (7 articles)
Politics by an observer - Failing at Faith (3 articles)
Faith cannot be forced into the child - Making My Mind (17 articles)
Path of Discovey of Intellectual Life - Lessons in Love Before the Pill (7 articles)
Love and sex when growing up in the 1950s and '60s
Recent Posts
- As North Korea's bellicose posturing
- Questions I Ask and Have Not Answered
- Stealth Totalitarianism of the New Left In Action: Obama Approves Domestic Surveillance Drones
- America's Murder Rate Indicates America Has A Gang Problem, Not a Gun Control Problem
- The New Left are the New Totalitarians and Barack Obama is New Left
- Hillary Clinton Disgraces Herself With Her Benghazi Testimony
- NY State Gun Control Law Will Likely Discourage Mentally Afflicted Persons from Seeking Help
- Ah, Lance.
- Background Checks for Gun and/or Ammo Purchase Could Easily Intrude on Privacy and Limit Liberty
- America is historically a nation of politically displaced peoples who have celebrated mass killing their oppressors; that culture has consequences.
Search
2.3 Miles Walk Route
- A Black Anglo Latino middle-class neighborhood
4.2 Miles Running Route
- Panoramas and details
Battle of Lewisburg
- Reenactment of Battle of May 23, 1862, in Lewisburg, (West) Virginia
Bear
- My wife says that "Bear" is my grandchild.
Brooklyn
- Streets, Homes, Neighborhoods
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Autumn Day in Public Urban Gardens
Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza
- Inspiring civic monument at Prospect Park.
Brooklyn Midwood
- Avenue M, Midwood, Brooklyn, on the Sabbath.
Crown Jewels
- Wonderful young people from our neighborhood.
Domestic Flowers
- Flowers in our neighborhood's street-side gardens cultivated by women.
Manhattan
- The personal and human-scale settings of the city.
Murrah Memorial
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Now Villages
- Village neighborhoods in Sprawling Suburb.
Pepper Tree
- An old pepper tree, with character in its detail and complexity.
Reliquary
- The author's baby and childhood photos in Faraway Village.
Re-Piping
- Re-piping our 1928 house.
Seattle
- Sunlight and Sight Lines
Shrouded
- Shrouds may cover, yet reveal and set forth.
World Trade Center Site
- Engaging Ground Zero, confronting painful memories.
Categories
- 1960s Journal
- 1980s Journal (1-108)
- 1980s Journal (109-308)
- 1980s Journal (309-825)
- 1980s Journal (826-1432 )
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- Avoidance
- Bear's Story
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- Bodily Truth
- Books
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- Current Affairs, Foreign Relations
- Death
- Economy and Finance
- Education and Schools
- Engagement
- Family Values
- Fashion
- Film
- FLDS
- Food and Drink
- Friendship
- Global Warming
- Guns and Violence
- Illusion
- Iran
- Iraq War
- Israel
- John McCain
- Magical Memories
- Media
- Medicine, Health, Health Care
- Mitt Romney
- Movies
- Music
- My Family
- My Health
- My Home
- My Neighborhood
- Not So Magical Memories
- Obama
- Physical Courage
- Politics and Political Ideology
- Religion
- Sarah Palin
- Sayings
- Science
- Shrouds
- Southern California
- Sports
- Talking To Myself
- Television
- Terri Schiavo
- Terrorism
- Travel
- Trust and Faith
- Walk Jog Walk
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
- West Virginia
- Women
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