It’s good to be careful. It’s instinctual, that God-given internal voice that tells us something’s not right and that we must beware. We’re suspicious of people we don’t know because we worry that they’ll take advantage of us and so we keep our guard up. That’s because there are people who’ll cheat us if they’re…

Everyday that I awaken brings the chance for me to draw in a breath, kick off the dregs of the day before and to venture out into a new world. The same can be said for you, too. That is the miracle that is you – to live a fresh, new day – unencumbered with…

“More, more, more,” goes the song ‘Rebel Yell,’ by Billy Idol. We always want more. More things, more mullah, more friends. Whatever it might be that we think we don’t have enough of, if only we had more of it we’d be happy or at least happier. But we know better, or at least we…

Your attitude determines the state of the world you live in. It can make you or break you. It isn’t understood why a positive attitude influences our minds and bodies the way that it does; we only know that it does. Research shows that people who’re sick improve faster when they have a positive attitude.…

Odd that I was jus’ recently thumbing through a 1983 People magazine I’ve kept, where ‘Return of the Jedi’ actress Debbie Carrington talked about wearing an Ewok suit, comparing it to a sauna, requiring the crew to continually hand out Gatorade. So it comes as a real blow to my heart-strings to learn she has…

Have you ever yelled at someone who didn’t deserve it? Anger’s the most dangerous and direct emotion human’s possess. If allowed, it’ll become destructive. Worse yet, it generally happens when we’re most angry at ourselves. It then becomes a vicious cycle; the angrier we become the worse the destruction. However we can choose to not…

“[And] I am no longer competent at skipping.” – Robert Fulghum After reading this single sentence, it got me to thinking, “Do I even remember how to skip anymore?” After all, I recall that as a child I used to skip all the time – especially if I were playing with my brother and sisters.…

In John Huston’s 1966 movie, “The Bible,” Nimrod shoots an arrow into the Heaven’s and God responds by confounding mankind. He purposefully confused our language, causing us to disperse so that we would never attempt to become greater than our Creator. However, today it seems that we are on that staircase again, trying to be…

Everyday I ask myself this question: ‘Do I think too much of myself?’ There is no middle-of-the-road answer to this question as we all have tendencies from day-to-day that lead us to one extreme or the other. Sometimes we need to convince ourselves of our importance because we will not hear it from anyone else.…

It’s a time in life that I miss now, a when I helped the old folks dig the pit, split the wood and cook the cow, eaten fresh fruits and vegetables, sopped up gravy with bread cooked over a wood-fired oven, laid on old blankets in the green grass under the tall trees, chased friends…