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We often come head-to-head with what I like to call our “frustration dam.” It is essentially our breaking point for dealing with daily challenges. Too

Life as an analogy As a clergy person, I feel compelled to have at least one good, “life-is-like-metaphor.” In the past, I had compared life

 Jalaja Bonheim is an acquaintance of mine. She is a healer, a holy-woman. I was honored to get an advance copy of her latest book, The

I know it was some time after we were married and sometime before we had children. I remember the house we lived in and which

This is a test post to see if the content that I intend to publish gets published. Here is a video office tour of ROTB

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