"I'm offended!" It seems that is a common complaint in our day. When did we become such a generation of "fragile little snowflakes" that the slightest challenge sends us into fits of offense and demands for regress? So, what do you think is behind this age of easy offense? I...
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The quote has been described as an Arabic proverb, but more likely it comes from advice given in India by a leader who died under mysterious circumstances. This attitude that my enemy's enemy is my ally has been used countless times in...
A quote attributed to Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, sums up our challenges with missing the point: "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." The truth is,...
Science struggles with paradox. In fact, our whole Western philosophy since the Enlightenment (so-called) has fought against the very idea of paradox. We want things in our world neat and in order. We want to be able to predict how our world will behave, and we want, above all,...
All I can say was it was embarrassing! I could have sworn the person I ran up to in the store was a buddy of mine from High School. I just knew this was going to be a fun reunion, and we'd laugh about that time we all... and...
"And Adam knew his wife Eve and she conceived." Isn't it interesting that the Holy Scriptures describes the most intimate connection between husband and wife as "know." There is something significant in human relationships that transcend a mere "knowing about" and goes to the very mystery of what it...
It was amazing. As I read his story I kept coming back to that very idea - Amazing. You see the man was sharing his life story with me and he was telling me how he built his first company from the ground up at age 24. He made...
"The best laid plans of mice and men..." Most of us at least try to achieve a "planned life." We plan for college. We plan our careers. We plan our relationships. We are forever warned against haphazard living, and rightly so, because a haphazard life tends toward chaos and...
"Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry! Be happy!" Yep, I loved that song, for about a day, and then it was being played so often I got sick of it rather quickly! But still, Bobby McFerrin captured in...
My little brother and I were typical brothers growing up. We would engage in "sibling rivalry" now and again! But we were being raised by a single mother who worked fulltime and cared for us full time as well. One such event when we were a bit older elicited...
