by Dr. Norris Frederick As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Is it better to be one rather than the other? Or…
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just…
painting by Neville Herbert-Reynolds By Norris Frederick “I love my life, Dad. “I love your life too, Dad. “I’m just curious about life, not death, I just like thinking about life.” It’s a late May…
Photo by Marek Szturc on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick Knowledge is Power “Knowledge is power.” We’ve heard that many times, and the statement carries a good deal of truth. To know through the scientific…
By Dr. Norris Frederick Have you ever wondered who you are? Have you had the experience, like the ones I’ve recently had, of looking at old photos of yourself or reading old letters from yourself…
by Dr. Norris Frederick Bottle Trees We took a trip to visit our friend Flo recently. She still lives independently, at age ninety-four, in her house, with the help of a community of friends and…
Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me. I’m on the way to the Virginia mountains…
text and photography by Dr. Norris Frederick “The great point is that the possibilities are really here. The issue is decided nowhere else than here and now. That is what gives the palpitating reality to…
Text and Photos by Dr. Norris Frederick “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” — William James[1] As I awake one morning, I lie in bed thinking about the classes I…
Newport Beach, California By Dr. Norris Frederick Since I wrote my post in early May, “Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism”, the epidemiologists’ warnings about what could happen when stay-at-home restrictions were relaxed have come true:…