Dammit. The page open and I am ready to write – and nothing is happening. The Muses or someone like them are nowhere to be found. I emailed The Norns, The Fates, and The Furies, but no response from nobody. Just hate when that happens. With that said, it dawned on me to do an ‘Ask my a question’ entry. This is somewhat a copout but a) I am curious what might come of it and b) it fulfills my contractual obligation with The Board of Directors Here at Spo-Reflections to save me from having my ears boxed and removed.
Ask me a question and I will write the answer in the comment section. I am very good with state capitols but you can look up that sort of thing yourself.
Throughout the day (when I ought to be working) I will pop in and write my responses.
The Spo-fan with the ‘best question’ (whatever that means) wins something yet to be determined.
Spo-Reflections 
55 comments
April 11, 2022 at 8:03 AM
Debra She Who Seeks
If you had your life to live over again, what would you do differently?
April 11, 2022 at 8:12 AM
Urspo
When I look back on my regrets, particularly the ones “I didn’t do” I regret not moving to the Pacific Northwest when I was in my youth. I was too timorous to leave my family/Midwest.
April 11, 2022 at 8:08 AM
Lori Hawkins
If you hadn’t become a psychiatrist what do you think you would be doing?
April 11, 2022 at 8:13 AM
Urspo
With my love for words and language I would have gone into linguistics. Most of my podcasts are about words, the history of the English language, and prescriptive/descriptive grammar.
April 11, 2022 at 8:16 AM
Mistress Borghese
Yes! You’d been perfect. And if you want, I could probably listen to you receipt words and their definitions to me at night when I go to bed instead of stories.
April 11, 2022 at 8:09 AM
Mistress Borghese
I love this my friend and I have often wondered -If you could have a career in anything, what would it be? Besides being a wonderful sommelier.
April 11, 2022 at 8:12 AM
Mistress Borghese
Damn. Ms Lori beat me to the punch by a minute!!!! I shall withdrawal that question and ask this one- What is your guilty pleasure to go to as a time waster? You know, things we shouldn’t be doing when there is things more important to be done, lol!
April 11, 2022 at 8:17 AM
Urspo
I won’t go into detail lest my family be reading this. hohoho
No really my favorite guilty pleasure is putting things in order and tidying up messes about the house. This is not OCD , but a sense of finding better ways to organize the pencils or the junk drawer. Admitting to this stupid mawkish past time makes cringe. hohoho again.
April 11, 2022 at 8:14 AM
Urspo
I would become a professional writer. Writing is my hobby, which is not my profession, but this makes a good combination – and it pays better.
April 11, 2022 at 8:25 AM
Mountain Dweller
What is your thinking about Carl Rogers’ three core conditions for healthy growth?
April 11, 2022 at 8:43 AM
Urspo
I am not familiar with this, I had to look it up. At first glance it sounds good. I will have to read what each term means to give it a proper opinion.
April 11, 2022 at 9:21 AM
David Godfrey
What stands in the way of your dreams?
April 11, 2022 at 9:31 AM
Urspo
Remembering them. Sometimes having a pad and pencil at the bed stand helps.
April 11, 2022 at 9:24 AM
BadNoteB
If you had the genie in a bottle waiting to grant it, what would that one wish be?
April 11, 2022 at 9:32 AM
Urspo
The ability to heal pain at a touch.
April 11, 2022 at 10:44 AM
BadNoteB
Very cool response! I’d share the billion$ from my wish with you 🙂
April 11, 2022 at 10:04 AM
Debbie W.
If the beautiful Harper could talk, what’s the first topic of conversation you’d enjoy discussing with her?
April 11, 2022 at 11:44 AM
Urspo
Has she had a good life, and in her decline is there anything more/else she would like?
April 11, 2022 at 10:20 AM
Brian Dean Powers
What do you think of psychologists and psychiatrists in the movies or on TV? Like Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People, Dr. Joe on the Major Crimes TV series, or Barbra Streisand (!) in The Prince of Tides?
April 11, 2022 at 11:45 AM
Urspo
Most psychiatrists in the movies/TV fall into two categories:
1) psychopaths
2) nincompoops
Once in awhile there is a ‘good one’
most of the time they are painful to watch as mostly they do/say things not really done/said.
April 11, 2022 at 10:30 AM
Old Lurker
I have so many questions, but most of them are impolite and many I feel you would deflect. So here is a softball: over the next three years, what thing are you most looking forward to?
April 11, 2022 at 11:46 AM
Urspo
I would like to travel and repair some things about the house. I miss the former and we need the latter.
April 11, 2022 at 11:17 AM
DwightW.
What state in the United States do you plan on living in after you retire!
April 11, 2022 at 11:47 AM
Urspo
This is a painful sad subject, for I doubt I will ever see retirement. There are many factors against it. Often I’ve thought of writing about it, but it always sounds whiny and gloomy, so I don’t.
I suppose I should see such a status, I would retire in Michigan not that it is glamorous but it is near relations, and I will want/need that in my dotage.
April 11, 2022 at 11:48 AM
Sam (@samandcoffee65)
For you, where have you not travelled that you would like to? To help me out, how do I eat more clementine’s when I crave more chocolate?
April 11, 2022 at 12:06 PM
Urspo
#1: there are lots of places: Iceland; Norway; 3-4 states of the union not yet seen (mostly in the south); Ireland; Japan (to get me a Baku)
#2: when you go to the grocery store, by clementine’s not chocolate. Have the fruit ‘low hanging’ as it were” around you to grab’em. If there must be chocolate in the house, make it good expensive quality type (no rubbish) and put it in the freeze underneath everything else forcing you to have to dig it up like Walt Disney.
April 11, 2022 at 12:45 PM
johnmichael42003
I always like to know and this may have been answered before…what meal could you eat every day, for all three meals, for a year. But more seriously, what one thing would you change about yourself if you could
April 11, 2022 at 1:29 PM
Urspo
What meal? Pasta! lovely pasta, with its almost infinite variety of shapes and sauces. I love it so !
What I would most change about myself? To have more courage when confronting anger/angry people. I tend to shrink or avoid or turn away, not stay and face bravely.
April 11, 2022 at 1:22 PM
Will Jay
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
April 11, 2022 at 1:29 PM
Urspo
42
April 11, 2022 at 2:20 PM
D in Texas
Whom do you admire, and why?
April 11, 2022 at 2:27 PM
Urspo
I admire a lot of people, they have in general the following attributes:
Courage to stand up to what’s right and do the right thing
Brightness – sharp cookies types.
Curious types who are interested in themselves and others and what makes things tic.
April 11, 2022 at 3:47 PM
Blobby
What’s your blood type?
April 11, 2022 at 7:18 PM
Urspo
A positive
April 11, 2022 at 5:47 PM
Linda Practical Parsimony
What do you honestly think of Dr. Phil? I have asked before and you avoided the question by being silly. I like you silly, but I want to know. I love him.
April 11, 2022 at 7:19 PM
Urspo
I have never seen him so I should not comment only to say others in my field see him as a bit of a quack pushing things for which he makes money.
April 11, 2022 at 5:51 PM
Linda
Why do we have nightmares?
April 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM
Urspo
Many reasons. The main one is the brain is firing badly due to trauma, it is its way of short circuiting itself trying in a way to work through it, but stuck.
April 11, 2022 at 6:13 PM
Pipistrello
Can you dance?
April 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM
Urspo
I used to waltz, polka, and two step. I miss this. It has been years.
April 11, 2022 at 10:40 PM
Linda Practical Parsimony
Does Someone dance? Does he ever dance with you?
April 12, 2022 at 7:42 AM
Urspo
Someone does not dance. Back when I was a two-stepper, I was a ‘leader’ and he wasn’t wanting/good at being a ‘follower’ more’s the pity.
April 12, 2022 at 2:32 AM
Robert
If you were reincarnated what, where, whom would you choose to be?
April 12, 2022 at 7:43 AM
Urspo
Blech. The notion of going from body to body like a cosmic hermit crab is not appealing. I would like to come back as an owl, great horned type preferably.
April 13, 2022 at 3:13 AM
Robert
So wise and deadly ‘wink’
April 12, 2022 at 5:26 AM
Robzilla, Native Of Slam Diego
If you could buy a new car, and money wasn’t a problem, what would it be?
April 12, 2022 at 7:43 AM
Urspo
An electric one. no more gasoline guzzlers.
April 12, 2022 at 6:41 AM
rjjs8878
I can’t think of a question that would be suitable for a public forum like this.
April 12, 2022 at 7:43 AM
Urspo
You can email me with that one.
April 12, 2022 at 1:30 PM
Sassybear
If You had 10 apples, and I had 9 pears, and Mistress Maddie was on a train with Travel Penguin to meet up with us and share our fruit, how long would it take Mitchell to get back from his walk to comment on your post about it and Old Lurker to make innuendos about a bunch of fruits eating other fruits?
April 13, 2022 at 6:57 AM
Urspo
#1 – you have a nice sense of humor.
#2 – I see you can’t ask a straight question (pun intended) so don’t waste time.
#3 – the answer is 42 minutes. Do not dare to question this.
April 13, 2022 at 10:08 AM
Sassybear
I was going for the winning question but I couldn’t think of anything super profound so I went with silly.
April 13, 2022 at 10:00 AM
jefferyrn
I wanted to think of something clever but it wasn’t in the cards. Enjoyed reading all the comments.
April 13, 2022 at 10:50 AM
Urspo
LOL I am glad you enjoyed them.
April 21, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Ron
What was the happiest day of your life (other than meeting Someone and your subsequent marriage, or your graduation from college). The one moment of pure joy. That feeling that “nothing could possible be better than this.