Entries by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.

A Free Book — What Came to Mind: Thoughts Late in Life

In 2019, contributor to this site Robert S. Griffin compiled a collection of his short writings on a variety of topics called What Came to Mind: Thoughts Late in Life.  For the book, Dr. Griffin gave himself a page limit—three hundred pages.   Staying within that quota, he selected thoughts, as he called them, posted on […]

About Nietzsche’s Maxim

In publications like this one, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1840–1900) comes up a lot.  Just about everybody knows his maxim, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”  Or at least some version of it, the wording varies from speaker to speaker.  Sometimes the reference is “us” rather than “me”: the 1982 movie “Conan the Barbarian” […]

Saint Lorne

Prominent on the front page of the February 14th New York Times is a feature story—“14 MIN READ” it said (most articles are two to six minutes), nine pictures, billed as “The Great Read”– by Times’ opinion columnist Maureen Dowd called “Live From New York, It’s Lorne Michaels: The man who made ‘Saturday Night Live’ […]

The Hite Three

The Hite Three, as I call them, are three precepts, prescriptions, rules to live by, somewhere in there, that you might want to try out to see how they work for you. Hite refers to Shere Hite, a woman who was big in American life back in the 1970s and ‘80s. She came up with […]

Thoughts on the Election

I first titled this writing “Thoughts on the Presidential Election” but immediately realized I didn’t need the word “Presidential.”   What other election is there?   Come to think of it, that gets at the main point of this piece: to my way of thinking, this presidential election was far too big a show — to the […]

Kinjies and Me

Kinji is a metaphor I’ve used privately and now I’m going public with it.   It refers to realizing that something isn’t what you had been led to believe it was.  “I get it now, that’s a kinji, how about that?” The kinji metaphor, or concept, comes from a writing I did for a personal website […]