So here’s a little quiz for you early risers, to help get your brain in gear. (Also suitable for late risers, who are just now getting their coffee.) What is the heaviest thing in the world? “That’s easy,” you say. “Fat Fred, my…
I sometimes wonder if we’re losing our ability to listen, to really understand what our spouses, our kids, and our friends are trying to tell us. If that’s true, we’re missing some of the deepest feelings a human being can experience: sympathy, empathy and compassion.…
So you come off the Interstate into that wounded part of town, and there he stands, with those woeful, pleading eyes. The cardboard sign says: “Homeless Vet. Out of Work ...” It’s probably a scam, you think. Tonight he’ll laugh it up with his…
Here, as a follow-up to my Friday post, is a second excerpt from Dr. King's now-famous letter, written from the Birmingham jail in March, 1963: "Though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter…