Category: Essays/Poetry

An Oxford University study showed that doing a kind action every day for seven days increased people’s happiness…

We are currently experiencing the final stage in a great 10,000-year human cultural transformation…

I’m just a couple of years behind Mr. Koehler chronologically. But I’m not quite ready to “give up”…

At the moment, I’m in Colorado enjoying vacation with my family. We have a large house stocked with plenty of food…

I can feel the wind on my face, the gravel at my feet – oh so minutely, but with enough realness to pull me back seven decades…

“White Christmas” has resonated for more than 80 years, and I think the reasons why are worth understanding…

Yet I have a story about one of the greatest evangelists in history. And he only converted one person in his life…

All around me people are driving angry, shopping furiously and preparing to rage vote next year…

Apparently, the article I wrote a few weeks ago about a proposed private heliport/helipad project hit a nerve… and it wasn’t the funny bone…

Halloween’s influence is transforming Día de los Muertos into a hybrid cultural tradition…

We came of age in the turbulence of the 1960s, graduating high school in possibly the worst year of that decade…

Gardening has been shown to have many mental and physical health benefits by getting people outside and working in the soil…