My Motorcycle Injuries

So yeah, the nation is going a little nutty concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19). I absolutely agree that we should be observant, cautious, and responsible. What I don’t fully understand is some of the things currently happening such as the toilet paper rush. My guess would be that people are preparing in case of a mandatory quarantine being put into place by the government under emergency measures. I assume that old leaves and pages from a Sears catalogue just won’t do the trick any more. At least everyone will have enough hand sanitizer to spray on their charcoal grills when the fire won’t cooperate a year from now, right? The title of this blog entry is a Latin phrase and it literally translates “remember you must die”. Figuratively, it is a phrase that signifies a reminder of our mortality and can be symbolized through things such as artwork. It’s an old phrase that dates back to ancient Rome. Having experienced a horrific motorcycle accident and knowing that I wasn’t really e...

There are times when I consider the way that I operate in life now in comparison to the way that I did before the motorcycle accident and I’m truly astonished at the differences made by a single event in time. I guess it isn’t really a single event when I couple the accident with all of the things that have been necessary to recover from all of the injuries inflicted on my body. It has required a lot of attention and effort over the years and continues to dominate in certain ways to this day. Many of the changes in the way that I do things have nothing to do with my physical condition, but rather with the way that my thinking process has changed over time. The way in which I look at our finances is one of the things that has changed to a fairly large extent. I have always been responsible with our money (both of my parents worked as accountants and served as an example of conservative personal financial management). However, I have also allowed a degree of more liberal spending within ...