The Law of Jante (pronounced “yan-TUH”) originally applied to only the Scandinavian countries, but it’s spread like cancer. Basically the Law of Jante states that individual achievement is illegitimate because it makes the group look bad. Well, the group can go to hell. The group doesn’t pay my taxes, pay my medical bills, pay for…
I’ll never join your mob, so stop asking
June 26, 2015
Everything I say and do is carefully thought out. I don’t react to anything emotionally, because to be frank, I used up most of my emotions decades ago. Also, I don’t personalize things. So people need to stop telling me that I must say and do certain things. And everyone really should give up trying…
Not even George Orwell thought of it
April 9, 2015
My mother CeeCee Lower Wictor was a rebel. Her rebellion took the form of quietly, politely, and very gently refusing to conform to society’s expectations of what a Mexican-American woman born in 1928 was supposed to be. She and I never got along—until the last three years of her life. Then I became her closest…
The timing should work out perfectly
April 3, 2014
Dad was terrified of dying. To keep from thinking about it, he did a lot of incomprehensibly destructive things. In some cases Dad’s impact has waned with the passage of time. I’ll get to some of those in a minute. But not only am I not afraid of dying, the timing should work out perfectly….