The graduations are over, the parties, friends and family have come and gone, the balloons are now flat, and the cake all eaten. Now what? This is the hardest time possible for new graduates, and my daughter is one of them. She has a degree from a prestigious liberal arts…
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Tags : In an article in the NY Times written by Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, he quotes Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said “happiness lies not in the mere possession of money,” and to recognize “the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success. The only thing we have…
There is a thriving business in horror movies and other such media that depicts violence and mayhem. I’ve never quite understood why, and generally go out of my way to avoid them. My imagination is way too active to sit there quietly watching, and I’m usually squirming in my seat…
Fear: A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; to regard with distrust; doubt and uneasiness. To shrink from doing. To paraphrase Shakespeare – Wherefore art thou fear. Hiding in the bosom of mine heart. The Bible contains the directive “Do…
From an article posted by Lew Smallwood of Dynagroup Inc Australia. How often do you think? Yes, I know we all think all the time. But how often do you engage in deep, disciplined, thought provoking, critical thinking. The kind of thinking that triggers deep and fundamental change? Something I…
In a survey recently published by Opinion Research for Habitat Heroes, of 500 children aged between 6 and 11, it was found that one-third feared Earth would “not be around” when they grow up. And 56 percent believed the earth would not be a good place to live. They also…
Akshay Kumar loves performing stunt sequences. From leaping off buildings to hanging out from choppers, he has done it all. As host of the TV show in India called Fear Factor, it’s all part of the job. Of course, for those of us who don’t think leaping out of buildings…
In this morning’s NY Times, there is a review of a new book by Jennifer Scanlon on Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmopolitan magazine fame, who is described at the original Carrie Bradshaw of ‘Sex and the City’. While she was a woman of much substance and fame, HGB had a…
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