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Current Dateline: Threadgill’s Austin, Tx Branch Office “What are the ideas that define you? What are the ideas that destroy you?” The father of the freshman moving into a dorm down on the University of Texas campus let slip that he’d rented a luxury SUV for the day so that his daughter would make the
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Dateline: Threadgill’s Austin Branch Office, Janis Joplin sang here. MysteryShrink’s words to live by: “Never pass up an opportunity to shut up.” (This is paraphrased from character in “Goodfellas.” A guy, we’ll call Jack Goodfella, is at a cafe table with two others. He says something negative about someone not present. Jack GF is shot for
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Dateline: London Heathrow International Branch Office, Several years ago, back when I was not the Emotioanl Maturity Queen I am now…. “What are the thoughts that determine you? What are the thoughts that destroy You?” As the man says on NCIS, successful Black Ops are 80% planning and 20% execution. I agree with him with
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The purpose of advertising is to stir our Emotional Guidance Systems. (Even though, when I was brought up before the board in the following credit card stoning, I was told that the purpose of commercials is not to “suggest” purchasing products, the purpose of advertising is to inform the public on what’s available. Right, and
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“Which is more important? The world that exists? Or the one you are responding to?” “Which is more important? The world that exists? Or the one created by ADVERTISING?” A frequent Mysteryshrink statement in the official Home Branch Office: Each of us makes decisions about how we spend our TIME, our ENERGY, our MONEY, and
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Dateline: Brownsville International Airport, the Very, Tippy End of Texas. Probably my older sister is the one who let out the secret ingredient found in vanilla. If not, I’m sure I’m blamed the missing bottle of flavoring on her like I did most everything. Learning that vanilla contained a lot of alcohol, my eleven-year-old
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Dateline: Home Office, Austin, Texas. Crazy Dog and Sammy Davis, Jr. in charge. The young psychology student came to me with a question. “Do you, as an experienced psychologist, think there is any value in reading the works of Sigmund Freud?” I said, I thought so, but I can be entertained reading the back of
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Remember the rule: We are surrounded by crazy people…..Only we’re not surrounded. Note: When our anxiety gets the best of us, when our emotions are running the show, sentences come out of our mouths….completely short-circuiting the thinking process. Also, our Emotional Guidance System knows everything about how other people should live their lives… The thinking
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Dateline: Mexico City National Museum of Art and my second home, DFW airport. To make sense of how a very cool world traveler conducts herself…Read Part One of the 1000 Islands Incident. Okay…Are we caught up? There I am, pretty near passing out, my knees shaking, my face red with the heat after hours lost
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Dateline: Mexico City Hilton Branch World Headquarters How would you recognize me here? I’d be the only English speaker around. The rest of the U.S. reads the news before picking a destination. But then, it depends on which news you read. #1 LA Times: Mexican police say they have found 12 mutilated corpses in hidden graves on the