This “most wondrous thing.” A gift or a curse?
What is the most wondrous thing? All around us people can be dying and we don't realize it can happen to us.- Joan Halifax Having survived two near-death experience as…
What is the most wondrous thing? All around us people can be dying and we don't realize it can happen to us.- Joan Halifax Having survived two near-death experience as…
Forbes list of the 10 happiest jobs leaves me feeling quite happy. Number 1 on the list is clergy, and while I am certainly not a full time leader of…
My daughter knew what brioche was before I did. I’m pretty sure she also ate brioche before I did as well. Unless I had some unknowingly at some point in…
My daughter came into the living room after her nap and looked at the television. A football game was on. She walked up to the television, her noses inches from…
For just $499.99 you can own the complete series of Law & Order on DVD. Twenty seasons of the show. Why would anyone ever want to own this? Isn’t that…
“What did you learn at school today?” I asked my two-year old daughter at the dinner table last night. “Fall,” she said. “I don’t like fall.” “Why?” She went on…
Any golfer will tell you that the harder you swing the club, the worse the result. Not always, but often enough. And yet we continue to swing hard, because it…
In describing a recent confrontation between me and a fellow human being (too benign to go into detail here), I said to my wife, “I don’t understand why these things…
JK Rowling, author of the series of Harry Potter novels, recently revealed that she considered killing off Ron Weasley midway through the series. "Funnily enough, I planned from the start…