I graduated High School when I was 16 back in 1983 in thePhilippines. I wanted to go to college there (life was good!), but my father had other ideas, unceremoniously packing and sending me off to school here early May of that year. Bummer, really, with summer back there being April and May, and having [...]

OK, maybe “always” is a stretch. Maybe the word at play should be “tendency.” Whatever. It’s just sad to think we get conditioned this way over time.
Absolutely meaningless case in point: Twitter users know that tools are available to make a Twitter account automatically respond with a DM (direct message) to all new follows. The [...]

I have no idea what this story has to do with anything – no lessons or morals or point really – but, I figure, I’m getting older, so better than even chance that I’ll forget this eventually, or considering my sensory challenges, the odds of me actually getting hit by a bus while crossing the [...]

For as far back as I can remember (and that goes back pretty far), I always seemed to find myself as part of that group of what I’ve started calling “One Percenters.”
In school, for example, every year they made us take those “standardized aptitude tests” I guess is what you call them, and every year [...]

Goodbye Braintropolis — as you know it, anyway — and hello Eldon Sarte’s Braintropolis!
Huh?
My apologies. For the longest time, Braintropolis was a blog in search of a purpose. I thought I found it a number of months back when I decided to try making it an Utne Reader of sorts, regularly reprinting others’ blog posts and [...]

Being married offers a number of advantages. One is that I don’t need to stock up on Hamburger Helper and ground beef anymore. And two, one way or another, this house we live in is going to get vacuumed.
Not that I expect my wife to do all the vacuuming. But realistically, I know that if [...]