WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Your older child would enter the first grade next year, but you didn’t want her in the poorly-rated public school...

As a kid, I spent what seemed to be a large portion of the winter months in the car with my mother, headed to and from the pediatrician's...

My grandson stopped by today; it's fun to watch a new human full of curiosity and energy. In one rare quiet moment, he was sitting still...

Throughout millennia of Bible narratives, many hidden stories or 'other lessons' inside of popular stories await the curious ones among...

Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph once spoke on the value of losing this way: “Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to...

Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing was known for his (then) unusual view and handling of mental illness. He published a book of his...

BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL football players were required to wear a mouthguard. The purpose, according to state athletic safety rules, was to...

ONCE UPON A TIME I walked—as in ‘hiked’—often. It began during my elementary school years when I trekked home after the final bell every...

The right thing Is to do the right thing The right way At the right time In the right place. It is always the right place And the right...

These United States were not God’s “chosen people,” although we certainly are a nation that made choices. And we the people continue to...

AUTHOR E.B. WHITE once wrote, “I wake up in the morning unsure of whether I want to savor the world or save the world. This makes it hard...

I hope you and I can remember that the people we interact with daily, no matter how they may behave toward us or how incompatible with...

1. There's no such thing as a small act of kindness. 2. I think kind people are the best kind of people. 3. I believe kindness reveals...

IN 1963, STANLEY MILGRAM began his quest to understand the factors that lead people to obey the orders given by people in authority. He...

HE GREW UP WORKING HARD. He was in charge of the family mule,“Henry”; without whom there would be no way to plow the fields. If the crop...

We will make many purchases throughout life. Houses, cars, babies, groceries, maybe a winning lottery ticket. We know, today could be the...

COOL, CALM, AND COLLECTED, he pretended he didn’t know me when he came through the front door. But that’s just his style. Control in...

“I WANT TO SAY MORE, but I want everyone to remember her like I would want to be remembered: by the work she did and by the mark she left...

DURING MY SINGLE YEARS, at every opportunity, I loaded my tent and other camping paraphernalia into the car and headed deep into the...

I may have been one to her at times, but I am truly thankful that my mother didn’t name me “Pain” or “Sorrow”. Throughout my life, Mom...