Suffering Is Fertile – It Can Grow New Life

"Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence," said Leon Bloy, ...

Cats Can’t Taste Sweet

Did you know that cats can’t taste the flavor of sweetness? That’s right. Felines cannot taste sweet. It’s like their tongues are color ...

What Do 860 Million Words Say About You?

In a recent book, Levi Lusko writes that it takes cooperation of 72 different muscles to produce speech. On average 16,000 words come out of your mouth ...

Judge Orders Man to Write 144 Compliments to Ex-Girlfriend

A Hawaii judge ordered a man to write dozens of compliments about his ex-girlfriend. It's all because he violated her protection order.

Darren Young, ...

Seeing the Stars

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

Celebrating the Now

We look forward to the promise of each day, having discovered the secret that the good old days are here and now.

Knowing Where the Fish Aren't

Sometimes Norm can be so positive and enthusiastic about whatever's he's doing that it's disconcerting to me. I wonder if he's walking ...

Noticing the Goodness

Since Tom and I, by nature, tend to focus on the hole instead of the doughnut, we try hard to "realize life," to call each other's attention ...

Not What You Say, but How

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.

Marriage Pecked Apart

The space shuttle Discovery was grounded recently--not by technical difficulties or lack of government funding, but by woodpeckers. Yellow-shafted flicker ...