Lori and I have been working with a financial adviser on our retirement plan. We’ve been facing down a whole host of decisions regarding risk assessment,...
Indian summer is the summer after summer. It’s that period of time–a few days or a few weeks–of warm air, wide open skies, and stillness, summer’s...
Imagine waking up every morning knowing that there are people who hate you and want you dead just because you exist. Imagine if the most beloved...
The 1984 film Amadeus presents a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The movie, and the Peter Shaffer play that preceded it, drives serious Mozart scholars...
We are traveling 1,000 miles an hour around the center of the earth. The earth is traveling 67,000 miles an hour around the sun–19 miles per...
I grew up in Ventura, California, a small, sleepy beach town an hour north of Los Angeles. There wasn’t much to do. But there were miles...
For French Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus, the only important philosophical question was: why should I not kill myself? Talk about getting to the point. Most of...
The Buddhists have a concept called upaya: “skillful means.” It grew out of the simple observation that one shoe does not fit all feet, and that...
When hard times come there’s one thing you can always count on. They don’t last. The world has a way of righting itself. But not before...
