Cookies and Cameras
Each of us came into the world unable to exert any direct influence, unable to even feed ourselves! Some of us were born with the proverbial silver spoon in our…
Psychological Immunity
"According to a growing body of research, the brain has a remarkable capacity to make the best of bad events: when we encounter negative situations we subconsciously activate what is…
Laughter Through Tears
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. The character of Truvey Jones in Robert Harling’s "Steel Magnolias" A friend recently commented that he’s at the point in life where he’s…
MY LIFE
Starring YOU Directed by YOU with Screenplay by YOU We use many different metaphors for the living our lives: Weaving a tapestry (it has a larger pattern that emerges over…
Jam TODAY
In Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll shares an interaction between the White Queen and Alice. The White Queen tries to hire Alice, offering “Two…
Avoiding Deadlines
Deadline is an interesting word. It was created during the American Civil War by the horrifically cruel Confederate Army officer Heinrich Hartmann Wirz, who ran the prison in Andersonville, Georgia.…
What Would Future Me Do?
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If so, then the cement between those paving stones is the tired disappointment we feel with ourselves when we…
A College Degree is Literally a Matter of Life and Death
This post, the first in a series, focuses on the paper Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial…
The Worst Day but a Good Week
The days in our life are like pearls on a string. Though they are connected, as we go from one to the next, they are also separate. It is difficult to make sense of them one at a time and our most immediate feelings are about the one we’re in. That’s where our awareness is.
Self-Growth Tip: Listening to Wake-up Calls
A good friend who I'd known since college died recently. He had only told a very few people that he had been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer and that nothing could be done to treat it.