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I have a somewhat strange spiritual-religious exercise for you. Doing (or not doing) it can offer learning in the following three areas: 1. Following direction

Sören Kierkegaard wrote: Belief is not so much a conclusion, but a resolution…belief is not a form of knowledge, but a free act, an expression

I like to ask door-to-door religious salespersons, “What percentage of people are rude to you?” The answer is always above 75%. I am told that

One day, I was at the doctor’s office for a medical procedure. My daughter (age 3 at the time) happened to be with me, sitting

Why don’t we ever have any free time? Want to know why you don’t have 10 minutes to set aside to do absolutely nothing? Probably

I was driving in Portland with my kids. As we slowed down, I saw a man standing on the street corner with a sign that

If someone gets angry at us, we have a tendency to think, “What the hell is wrong with that guy? His response is completely unwarranted.”

Have you ever gotten mad at someone for screwing up your day? Or you have been convinced that a ‘corporation’ or ‘those people’ were out

Eugene Ionesco, a Romanian and French playwright, said: “It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” This is really hard to accept, because I

I’d like to share a lesson from when my son was 4 years old and my daughter was 2. (They are currently 7 and 4.)