Last night I had a very unique experience and it has made me question a lot of things ( Read more... )

There is something that I have been noticing in our society that I think needs to be addressed. Actually, it has become something that I have encountered all too often and am thoroughly sick of ( Read more... )

This is something I have been thinking about for a while and experimenting with in my life with amazing results. Today in the newspaper I read this op-ed, which says it so much better then I ever could and begins to uncover a deeper truth that is rare in Western thought. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Leave a comment  1 

Yep -- I'm gonna have a fabulous summer, the kind of summer that gets you through the cold months with a smile ( Read more... )

The other day I heard that the man who raised me was dying. I hesitate to call him "my Father," because he never was a "Father." What he was instead was a tyrant who was gone all day inflicting his will on others, to return at night to inflict his will and his brutality on those in his household. That does not make a "Father ( Read more... )

I have wanted to read this books since I heard it came out... finally I bought it through Amazon and sat at home and put it in my office to look at occasionally and look forward to curling up with. If it was anything like the Time-Traveler's Wife, then it was going to be a treat, and from what I read in reviews... well... it was like having an ( Read more... )

Americans are largely an unhappy lot. I know, because I am one ( Read more... )

Sometimes something happens that makes you as a person question everything: beliefs, agendas, commitments, responsibilities… It often serves as an impetus to force one out of the ruts formed by following the well-worn path of least resistance. In this way a tragedy, no matter how terrible, can serve a positive purpose, give one a new sense of ( Read more... )

The greatest happiness in life is feeling someone else's smile.

Good or bad: you find what you look for in others ( Read more... )