Midway into my career as a professional, something that seemed incredible, at least for a professional, struck me: Money doesn't buy happiness.
Grandparents and gurus have said this through the ages. But who listened? Not me. A friend of mine said once that "People don't take this happiness stuff serious. They think it's poor conversation."...
In the smallest moments come the biggest opportunities. And knowing you, there are many small moments still ahead.
In the most ordinary events and endeavors come the most extraordinary possibilities for joy. You missed them, right?...
Your expectations can make things more difficult for me than they would otherwise be if you didn't consider me a magician.
Or they can make things go better than they would otherwise go for me if you just name me the sole person in your will.
The problem with same-sex marriages is the sex of each person. Should we define marriage as a bond between two people who each have the same type of genitals or only as a union of different ones? And what about the genitalia-challenged people, where would they fit?
For as long as there have been man and woman, the idea of having one mate has been endorsed. Mostly by women, of course, but t...
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was once quoted as saying, "I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who carries a raincoat." However, Wilson has been photographed hundreds of times without a raincoat under his arm, defying his words and making historians wonder if he ever wore under pants.
French writer Robert Mallet said, "Many pessimists end up by desiring...
Opinions, it is said, are like elbows—everyone has two. Well, perhaps there are a few more one-armed men or women out there who have one, but that is the business of fictional characters like Richard Kimble, not me. I am concerned with criticism and you should be, too, because it usually doesn’t amount to a hill of beans what other people think of you. Let me spin a story for you that exemplifies...
GRANTVILLE, Pa. -- I love scientists. These are people who devote their lives to the tiny things that usually become monstrously large things in all of our lives. Scientists are devoted, dedicated, destined for greatness, dolled up for dinner and delicately deliberate in their discoveries.
So imagine how excited I was when I learned that scientists revealed that they have identified a micro...
Once there wasn't even a drug to take away the pain of surgery. Today there are drugs that keep people on their feet even when their feet are ridden with severe Cyocosis and their toenails grow inside out.
Scientists say that if the progress of medicine continues at the rate it is going now, the life-expectancy of a human being will be 234 by the year 2989. But that is just an estimati...
When Edwina Edwondozo, ninety-six years old, was asked her secret for longevity, she replied: "It was mainly due to getting off the Titanic after it hit an iceberg."
You may laugh at her reply, (especially since it was later learned she was never on the ill-fated ship) yet someday you may be asked the same question. Especially if you live to be in your nineties or more. Certainly...
When you learn to write, and I don’t mean the alphabet, I mean after you got that stuff down and put words and sentences together and thoughts and feelings and … stuff … you learn that the communication process should involve a reader.
Once you have a reader, then you have to be sure that you know what you are writing is clear and moreover, that the reader knows what you are writing is cle...