Doc Ott’s Apologia Blog

One of the great things about being an American citizen is that I get to do (almost) whatever I want for fun. Assuming I do not hurt anyone in the process, I get a lot of leeway to enjoy the world around me. In some cases, that activity might be […]

Ok, so it is not hard to see that America is getting fatter as a nation. We hear about it on the evening news, read about it the paper, and yet we don’t seem to be changing anything about our lifestyle. We all know that eating too much is bad. Most of us know that […]

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
It is by being alive to difficulty that one can avoid it. The sage meets with no difficulty. It is because he is alive to it that he meets with no difficulty.
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So here is something that I found this evening. These are words that I could live by now. Two years ago, I would not have understood them.
Knowing others is to be clever.
Knowing yourself is to be enlightened.
Overcoming others requires force.
Overcoming yourself requires strength.
To know that you have enough is to be rich.
Push through and […]

今天是您持續
My mother was a sweet, wonderful pediatric nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital for 30 some odd years. In her work, she cared for many a small child that spend there last days alive in her care. She once told me that some of her colleagues treated the kids like […]

As any of you who know me can attest. I am the poster child for ADHD medication. I show every symptom of it. Never once have I been prescribed (nor would I ever take) medication for my condition. It was that condition that got me where I am today. I […]