January 31, 2024
When I was a little kid and my mother was making coffee in a coffee pot, she would count out loud the number of scoops that […]
January 24, 2024
An old guy in my neighborhood went to the same deli every morning and ordered a bagel and a cup of coffee and he sat there […]
January 17, 2024
The other day on a mailbox that’s right outside my office, I noticed someone had put a key on top of the mailbox. I imagine that […]
January 10, 2024
There is not a week that goes by in my life that I don’t think about something a teacher throughout my life had told me or […]
January 3, 2024
The other day, I went into a bank and there was a counter at the entrance where there was a greeter who asked me why I […]
December 27, 2023
In a commencement speech given by the wonderful author David Foster Wallace, he begins by telling a story about two young fish who are swimming along, […]
December 20, 2023
A friend recently recommended an article called “17 Ways to be More Positive” and one of the early tips on that list that caught my eye, […]
December 13, 2023
The other day, I was checking out at a supermarket and the cashier was talking to somebody next to them who was stocking a shelf. That […]
December 6, 2023
A quotation I read recently was from John Barrymore, the actor, and it was “happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left […]
