This past Sunday I tried avoiding responsibility. I was walking to brunch with my wife & mother-in-law, and it happened I was on the opposite side of Ninth Avenue. Out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a pigeon, perhaps with a broken wing, flutter a few feet and land …
Predicting the Future, Creating the Future
I imagine most of us would love to know the future. We all want to be prepared, alert and on top of things, either good or bad, and knowing the future seems very beneficial… and to a degree, it is. History is littered with all the ways we have tried to scope out the future, …
Changing The Past
Until recently, I had, off & on, wrestled emotionally with a specific period of my childhood. When I was 10—11 years old, I had a pretty flawed teacher who abused a fair number of students but seemed to focus most of his attention on me. I didn’t realize the extent of it at that time, …
No Saving… No Blaming…
I am sure everyone reading this has probably gone through the experience of trying to save someone they cared about, and most likely, trying to save him or her from themselves. It can be a frustrating experience. Odds are, you failed anyway. I have done my fair share of trying to “save” loved ones from …
What’s The Point…?
“The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” — Leo Rosten I recently posted this quote to my Facebook status. I ‘borrowed” it from someone else, a friend who had it as …