by admin | Mar 10, 2015 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind
Do the Scales Balance? A guy driving back from a fishing trip is killed when a rock thrown from an overpass crashes through his windshield. Shit happens. An otherwise-healthy 32-year-old mother of 5 small children contracts breast cancer and dies within 4 months of...
by admin | Jan 19, 2015 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind, Success
Every year on MLK Day, I like to read MLK’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail. It reminds me of where we’ve been and where we thought we were going. Where we are is much better than where we were and not nearly as good as where we are going. In his I Have...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Success
(Note: this essay originally appeared in 2011 on this web site with a different title.) Most people really have no desire to be free — they only want to be taken care of, and will give up almost any freedom in exchange for the promise of security. I’m one...
by admin | Jan 12, 2015 | Reviews, Success
Are you a compulsive multi-tasker? Do you watch TV with your smart phone in one hand and a laptop nearby? Do you have a dozen different tabs open in your browser and flip between them all? Do you read something while riding an exercise bike? Watch TV while walking on...
by admin | Nov 29, 2014 | Success
Liberty is a moral issue. This is why we speak in moral terms about issues that touch on the Liberty principle. In the afterglow, (or burning embers – take your pick), of The Ferguson Decision, let’s review the situation from the standpoint of the...
by admin | Nov 8, 2014 | Spirituality • Peace of Mind
Can faith and rationality co-exist? For most of my life, I believed – passionately – that they could. But life being what it is, I have come to view faith in God as not terribly rational. And yet, I just realized I was wrong. In the words of Ricky Ricardo,...
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