Do you recall reading or hearing Aesop’s Fables read to you as a child?  If you have not encountered these treasured stories, you have...

If you haven’t noticed the meanness and violence against one another, perhaps it’s because you’ve been living in a cave without human...

Two weeks ago, I read a couple of articles on Instagram saying much the same thing: that parents, mostly mothers, are the reason for the...

Values: “…a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/d...

Last week, I did’t write a blog post.  No, I wasn’t on an Alaskan cruise.  No, I wasn’t doing my taxes.  No, I wasn’t getting ready for...

Writer Henry David Thoreau quipped, “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find...

On this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the great man reminds us, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to...

Happy 2024, everyone!  I’ll bet you spent a lot of time during the holidays communicating with friends and family.  While you were using...

[This is an updated version of my blog posted on 1 January 2022 .] This time last year, 2023 was born full of unexpected pleasures and...

“One thing that’s become clear to me is that really good people can make really bad decisions. The kind person forfeiting their dreams...

In Ira Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives, the author presents a tale that is satirical, terror-struck, and cautionary. Briefly, the story...

While many of us are minimalists, when the end-of-the-year holidays roll up, we are often in a struggle to maintain a simple, drama-free,...

(Photo credit: https://www.insider.com/karen-meme-origin-the-history-of-calling-women-karen-white-2020 For everyone named ‘Karen,’ I feel...

When I think of ‘drama,' what comes to mind first is sitting in a packed theatre experiencing a play or musical being acted out on stage....

While it is a mystery who first coined this idiom, oftentimes, brilliant playwright, Oscar Wilde, is credited with having said, “When you...

Do you sometimes come across a quote from someone long dead from ancient eras that seems so real and fresh today? Or, have you heard...

Lately, on social media, I’ve seen a slew of young women behaving like ‘mean girls’ especially targeting Baby Boomers, Gen Xers,...

After experiencing the high energy Taylor Swift’s Era Tour Concert on film this weekend, I was inspired to discuss ‘shaking it off.’ If...

After the blisteringly hot summer, cooler fall weather is a blessing. It’s as though Earth is shuttering its house, closing the windows...

"Madame Arcati" Lately, on social media, I’ve seen a slew of young women behaving like ‘mean girls’ especially targeting Baby Boomers,...