HOW ARE YOU SMART?

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.         Bill Watterson Some of my readers, considering this week’s title, may assume that there was a grammatical error made by the writer.  Did he mean to...

STRINGS OR ROPES? PEBBLES OR ROCKS?

If you carry the bricks from past relationships, you’ll end up building the same house.” Some years ago, I worked with a man who presented issues related to his marriage and substance involvement. In the course of his treatment, the topics moved to his family of...

Born to Win

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.    Henry David Thoreau Born to Win It is February 15 of this year and I’m kneeling beside a bathtub that is filled with bubbles and my granddaughter, Lucy.   My wife, Anita, and I are on a mission to spend time with our two...

The Source of Evil

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Evil. It’s an intimidating and frightening word. It is so scary that we often resort to less malevolent terminology: wrongdoing, misdeeds, or bad conduct. No...

Five Minutes

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else’s fairy tale.” ? Wale Ayeni I believe that the happiest of people experience today’s newsletter’s “five minutes a day.” What are they? They are the moments in...