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Talking with a friend the other day, the subject of happiness occupied both our thoughts. My friend was deeply concerned about a loved...

Having recently completed a change of residence with all of the attendant challenges, not least of which was a brief sense of...

The imminent occasion of what will be the 20th move in my adult life set me thinking about both the impermanence of what we call home,...

The conflation of scripture and psychology would seem to be an oxymoron. Religion after all concerns itself with matters of faith, by...

Recently I wrote about denial, the attitude, not the river. Today I would like to take up the subject of avoidance, a trait with which I...

Have you ever felt helpless? I know I have, and right at this moment I am again, as I contemplate what, if anything I might do to...

A little more than a month ago I was saddened to learn that a gentleman I much admired had passed, leaving behind him a loving wife,...

Perhaps you’ve heard the joke before. Denial is more than a river in Egypt. I didn’t say it was a great joke—maybe not even a bad pun....

Why is it that all of life’s big questions seem to lead us to more questions and not to definitive answers? Or is it that in our quest...

There’s an old and not particularly funny joke that goes like this: Denial is more than a river in Egypt. In that vein, Providence is...

Trust is a funny thing, so hard to establish, so easy to lose. It is the basis for all relationships, whether romantic, professional or...

Many of us have wondered, what is the plan for my life? Some believe that there is no plan save what we forge for ourselves, while...

By all accounts, Eden was paradise; the kind of place that we dream of being. I imagine incredible vistas, an enchanted landscape filled...

Every few years it seems someone advances another theory about causality and the existence of an underlying order or lack thereof. The...

On a recent trip to Arizona, I had occasion to do a little hiking in the foothills around Scottsdale. The terrain is quite different from...

One of a kind, or at least that is one translation, but it isn’t one that truly conveys the sense of the expression. I think of it in a...

The words are familiar to anyone who grew up in the last few decades. “You can check out any time, but you can never leave.” The lyrics...

I have always been fascinated by expressions that have become part of our common use but the derivation of which seem to elude...

In the 14th century a Franciscan friar by the name of William of Ockham, suggested a deceptively simple principle whereby one might solve...

I have heard it said that it easy to have faith as long as it isn’t put to the test. No doubt there is some essential truth in this...