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(Editor’s note: My Annie is now five… but I wrote this article when she was still very newly four-years-old.) My daughter insists on having me

I teach. I am the instructor of record of three Algebra 2 classes as well as one College Algebra class at De De La Salle

There are three different aspects to what makes a nightmare literally a nightmare: 1. You don’t have control 2. There’s no end in sight 3.

There are two well-known psychology concepts that have an important impact on our spiritual-religious lives. Observation bias, also known as the observer expectancy effect is

Years ago, an Eastern European youth came up to me after a speaking gig of mine. He told me that, according to Jewish law, I

One of my roles as a rabbi is to declare foods kosher or not. That means I get to say that certain foods are healthy

Which would bother you more while you were trying to rest: 1. a radiator making clicking noises? 2. a person snoring? Most people would say

Paint everywhere, a lost glove, and regret Writing in the 1940’s, Danish scientist Piet Hine wrote a beautiful poem about loss: Losing one glove is

The American Buddhist nun Pema Chodron in her dharma talk about anger – which is available as a book or audio book under the title

In July 2011, I first made mention of a quote in the Rhetoric of Aristotle, Volume I, Chapter 14, verse 1 – ‘The less the

Once, I was at a cabin with my kids and Jane, and I stubbed my toe three different times. (It was different toes, but a

I want to explain to you how the phenomenon of confirmation bias is keeping you seeing the world as you think it is, as opposed