[ DISCLAIMER ] Living within your means is a personal principle regarding the financial practice of spending less money than you earn or, more broadly, spending only on what you can afford. Concerning this helpful practice, I stated in We Buy Things We Don’t Need, to Impress People We Don’t Like : In adolescence, I [tried] to impress girls with tangible items. For example, in high school, I made contact with a Bomb City hustler (“T-Bone”) who negotiated a payment plan f

[ DISCLAIMER ] Within my blog, because I generally focus on healthy and unhealthy negative emotions , I don’t spend much time discussing positive emotional states such as happiness and joy. For context, the American Psychological Association (APA) thusly defines happiness: [A]n emotion of joy, gladness, satisfaction , and well-being . I view happiness as a state of being rather than representing the six core emotions experienced by humans, which include joy, fear,

[ DISCLAIMER ] *Spoilers for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) contained herein. Photo credit , property of Sony Pictures Releasing, fair use A Big Bold Beautiful Journey I recently watched A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025), a romantic fantasy film, with slight expectation for a particular outcome. To my surprise, I enjoyed it quite a bit! (With little doubt, I’ll be watching it again in the future.) Describing the plot, one source states: Some doors bring you

[ DISCLAIMER ] As Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is informed by Stoic philosophy , this blog entry is part of an ongoing...

[ DISCLAIMER ] For some reason, the son (“DJ”) of the family with whom I lived in high school popped into my mind today. In specific, I...

[ DISCLAIMER ] As I delved deeper into my short-lived infatuation with DJing in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, I came across the work of...

[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Are you familiar with the expression “good vibes”? According to one source, it relates to “meaning...