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One of the earliest lessons we learn in life is the art of manipulation, even my grand dog knows how to practice it.  On early mornings...

I am at the point in life where I am more conscious of the decisions I make, as well as those I made in the past regarding my potential...

Life is constantly presenting us with choices, sometimes benign ones which require no moral struggle but other times weighty and...

A recent post on a social media site expressed sadness at the decline of the hippie generation.  Remember Woodstock, Haight Ashbury,...

If you have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece I would commend it to you. I just finished reading it again after a twenty-year...

Walking through the National Holocaust Museum a few weeks ago was a somber and disturbing experience, not just for the reasons one would...

I learned a new word today, catastrophizing.  It describes a mental health condition, a thought pattern if you will that leads people to...

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the divisions in our country.  It is hard to remain objective, to see the other...

If you spend any time at all on social media—and I confess I do, you have undoubtedly seen your fair share of posts displaying some...

One of my favorite Saturday afternoon Television shows back in the early 90’s was a Science Fiction comedy that lampooned truly horrible...

A recent post on social media asked the question, who inspired you to learn to cook?  I learned two things from the comments in reply.  A...

Not long ago I had the pleasure of engaging in an online debate about the feasibility of adapting a certain literary work to the screen. ...

In the early 1970’s a Stanford University Psychology professor, Phillip Zimbardo, conducted a now infamous experiment that examined the...

As we usher in the New Year it is once again that time when many of us make promises to ourselves to turn over a new leaf—to remedy past...

We are nearing that time of the year when spirits benign and malevolent tend to make their presence known.  Perhaps you think me Grinch...

In the lead up to the holidays I found myself a little short for time so I have decided that it might be fun to repost the very first...

Regardless of where you stand in the current political divide, and assuming it isn’t at the extreme ends of the spectrum, what sets us...

A friend of mine once quipped that the evening news broadcast went as follows: “ Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Here is the news. ...

Just in time for the annual changing of the clocks, I read an article in my news feed the other day reporting that a school division in...

Most of us are familiar with the epigram that money is the root of all evil but how many know that the expression is a truncated version...