Chores, tasks and responsibilities: Time to put some order into life. — By Tim Clark Autumn is the time to look back on all the things left undone during the cold, bleak temporary death of winter. Don’t forget to examine the tasks forgotten during the wonderful, warm days and comfortable evenings of Spring. While you’re at it, think about the little chores…

There are so many people that I talk to who are looking for coaching in a way to move forward with their goals. — By Laura Noel Aloha! I have a question for you and it’s a non-drinking related question. Are you under the influence? Are you under the influence of the problem or the solution? There are so many people that I talk to who are looking for coaching in a way to…

Hatred is a terribly powerful thing. — By John Pavlovitz Hatred is a terribly powerful thing. It has a way of infiltrating the heart like a cancer; hardening it, darkening it, destroying it. When someone submits to rage completely, when they are fully diseased with contempt for another, they can do the most unspeakable, unimaginable things. …

When did I give away my voice? That voice of curiosity. The capacity to question everything I was told that “this is the way things are”? — By Rico Provasoli I am curious. When did I first get hypnotized? By the television cartoons? By the Saturday morning cowboy movies where the good guys wore white hats, the bad guys in black? By my first-grade teacher, a nun who terrified every kid in the classroom? When did I…

Love is the answer to every question. — By Magdalen Bowyer A woman investigates her life when things don’t turn out the way she expects and her most pressing questions remain unanswered. She has outgrown her myth and must build anew. My Aunt Muriel invested a decade of her life researching our family history. It is from her…

-the new normal for this recovering workaholic- — By Edie Weinstein The concept of going with the flow was a nice dream, something to aspire to, something that only slackers and unmotivated people allowed for. That was what I thought until fairly recently. For as long as I could remember, I was a get it done, high achieving…

People just don’t want to talk with me. — By Jeff Cann *Resting B*tch Face — I first heard this four or five years ago. My blogger friend Robyn used the term, talking about herself. She didn’t use the RBF acronym; she used the whole phrase. Thank God she did. I think that’s the last time I ever heard…

The arrival of the internet age has significantly changed how people view gender roles and equality. — By Prakash Neupane The notion of gender roles and the quest for equality have undergone a considerable transition in recent years. These developments challenge our ingrained conventions and test the limits of traditional gender definitions, reflecting a larger cultural shift. A more inclusive and diversified view of gender identities is…

If sentience, consciousness is determined by loops of impulses, could LLMs, with their artificial neural networks have theirs? — By David Stephen There is a recent preprint on arXiv, Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness, where the authors stated that, “First, we adopt computational functionalism, the thesis that performing computations of the right kind is necessary and sufficient for consciousness, as a working hypothesis. This…