Entries by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.

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 […]

 Thoughts Prompted by “Rich Men North of Richmond”: Including One About Celebration

I’ve been especially taken by the “Rich Men North of Richmond” phenomenon that’s so big in the news these days (it’s late August of ‘23).  As you know—no need for a lot of exposition here—it’s a song by a heretofore unknown singer/songwriter who goes by the name of Oliver Anthony.  As The New York Times […]