May 12, 2021
Robert Kurson’s excellent book Shadow Divers is the true account of two weekend deep-sea scuba divers who discovered a sunken World War II German U-boat just […]
May 5, 2021
A friend of mine posted a recipe on Facebook that included the unexpected but glorious use of peanut butter. Along with the instructions, she noted that […]
April 28, 2021
Mark Twain said,” There are two kinds of people in the world. One kind separates people into two kinds of people and the other kind doesn’t.” […]
April 21, 2021
I was taking a walk the other day and a car turned past me into a supermarket parking lot. I noticed a dog in the passenger […]
April 14, 2021
When I read Stephen Covey’s classic book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, his “Putting First Things First” habit made a permanent impression. In that […]
April 7, 2021
There’s a concept in psychology called “The Corrective Emotional Experience.” It refers to an experience you have later in life that “corrects” a bad experience from […]
March 31, 2021
When sound engineers are designing and installing a sound system for a movie theatre, they balance all the different pieces of equipment so that a certain […]
March 24, 2021
One of my favorite expressions is original in Yiddish – it translates roughly into English as, “With one ass, you can’t dance at two weddings.” Someone […]
March 9, 2021
When I worked in the publishing business, I shared office space with my friend Rich. Every morning, Rich would come in to the office, grab a […]
