“He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.” William...

It might be easy to ‘poo poo’ empathy, as in ‘Empathy plus ninety-nine cents, what’ll that get me? A donut?’ But honestly, out of all my...

There’s a new novel out titled, “The Kindness of Enemies” and I wish I’d thought of that title first! At thirty I didn’t have any...

The recent Paris attacks have made me think about what it means to feel disenfranchised. And why does that feeling lead some people to do...

The upside to being on a fairly continuous ‘self-improvement’ plan is that I keep finding new ways and things to improve! The downside is...

Am I Truly Boring? All the things I could write about, I want to write about boredom. Once when I was 18 my father said, “If you don’t...

Time to Reflect Today I am on vacation and happily spending the day napping, reading a beach novel, making homemade guacamole, tending to...

I’m tired of defending psychotherapy. It’s kind of like the amount of times I heard the “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” Natasha and Boris jokes...

As I get ready to send my second son off to college I am thinking about graduation, because in a way I feel like I’m graduating too....

At 50, I tend to click on articles about growing older gracefully, or not so gracefully. Some of them are worthy of the word ‘viral’ and...