“I expect you to have this room cleaned by the time I get home today.” “My expectation is that you pull your own weight around here.” ...

On Christmas Day in 1977, the Mel Brooks film High Anxiety , was released. [To watch the trailer for the film, open this link: ...

Close your eyes. Think about the winter holidays of your past.  What triggers your memories?  What smells, sounds, tastes, touches, and...

[reworked since it’s first publication in March 2022] A new year will soon be born, full of unexpected pleasures and challenges, full of...

Saturnaliae bona vobis! Happy winter solstice! Hoping your heart gets lighter as the days get brighter. Merry / Happy Christmas! While...

How did we go from Halloween to Christmas overnight?  What happened to Thanksgiving Day in the USA coming, in importance, before...

Recently, I wrote about learning to yield when something doesn’t go our way.  Yielding starts inside us first and then migrates outside...

What challenge is more effective: one your boss or other entity issues or forces on you or one you define for yourself?  Even if you...

From the Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher c. 500 BC, “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away...

Halloween, Hallowe’en, Allhalloween, Allhallowtide, All Hallow’s Eve, All Saints’ Eve: whatever you call it, people from the USA are...

I’m a believer in what I think manifests in my life.  If I choose not to embrace anger and resentment, I’ll create the opposite.  If I...

Everywhere you go, you hear people talking about the economy. People complain about the THE ECONOMY/the economy and sometimes they don’t...

A friend used to say, “You are changed by the company you keep and the books you read.”  While I do not fully agree that I’m truly...

“Should you start bursting popular myths or should you let the people believe that which maybe they're just hearsay?”(Anonymous,...

The story of our lives rolls along second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day, week by week, month by month, year...

Here we are in another highly contentious political season.  When you watch a debate or listen to the political ads or a candidate being...

“Why can't you just tell me the truth? Hard to believe the things you say Why can't you feel the tears I cry today? How do you win if we...

“You can't hide your lyin' eyes And your smile is a thin disguise I thought by now you'd realize There ain't no way to hide your lyin'...

“It's just your jive talkin', you're telling me lies, yeah Jive talkin', you wear a disguise Jive talkin', so misunderstood, yeah Jive...

In the United States of 2024 with a highly contentious and exceedingly crucial presidential election looming, the word, ‘integrity,’ is...