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I wanted to get away, but common courtesy and rules of workplace decorum dictated that it would be rude. I wanted to go up to

“It doesn’t matter if I mess up, because Aunt Sparky loves me,” said my then 8-year-old boy during the construction of a popsicle-stick gift for

Save Ourselves!  In 1925, the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote:  Today, electricity, railways, , and the telegraph spoil the whole world. Everyone makes these

The terror we avoid. Stuff in my pockets, but not me. Have you ever emptied your pocket or bag to find something that you didn’t

Errors We Humans Do We all make mistakes, right? To err is human, to forgive divine. Mistakes are just bound to happen because we are not

Ooops. I drank the Kool-Aid. Sorry. I made a mistake. I drank the Kool-Aid. I believed that more is better. I snapped out of it.

    Spiritual-religious Barometers At one time in my life, I thought it was marvelous that I could tell how hydrated I was by the

More Love I run a group at my high school called the Compassion Club. We try to bring more compassion to the school’s student body

Ask “to what end” & then in-source. I want to tell you a story that I first heard from Rabbi Robert Levine, the senior rabbi

Not Time! Most of the kids in the eleventh-grade class I teach come in with serious knowledge deficits.  For example, on the first test I

Notice me as I am Last spring I received a long, convoluted, phone message for a wedding from the mother of a bride. Anxiously, she

God Needs You. In this article, I am going to explain how God needs you to set aside your ego so that God can be in

Blessed with a mis-matched watch strap.  Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, a well-known psychologist and author, wrote a story about a time he visited Israel and asked