Master Violinist Goes Unrecognized

Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish ...

Wealthy Investor Damages a Picasso

Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso is estimated to have produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations, ...

Value of a Person

What is the value of a person? Can we measure this value by a paycheck, a retirement benefit, or a stock option?

Some years ago I purchased a Hummel Christmas ...

Appreciating Each Other

Happily married couples appreciate what they each bring to the relationship. Their union is more than just the process of addition. One plus one now equals ...

All For God

The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly ...

The Importance of the Soul

In a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history with its empires, its wars and revolutions, its blossoming ...

Tagged with Love

For weeks, my son, Bill, and his wife, Kathy, were gathering and pricing things for a yard sale. Their youngest daughter, Meadow Dawn, was fascinated ...

It's the Thought That Counts

Percentage of respondents who said their best Christmas gift last year was not the most costly gift they received: 64.2

Hidden Value

A gem dealer was strolling the aisles at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show when he noticed a blue-violet stone the size and shape of a potato. He looked ...

The Mystery of Motivation

The mysterious internal combustion called motivation is sustained when you know you are important to a worthy cause.