September 21, 2010 | 10 comments
Last week, my wife and I went to an open house at our son’s high school. We walked through our son’s schedule, spending 10 minutes in each of his classrooms listening to the teacher tell us about the year ahead
August 23, 2010 | 1 comment
Here’s a new-to-me-version of an old story that has been widely circulated in the past that illustrates success in a simple life, well lived. The businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat
August 13, 2010 | 2 comments
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali Is their a pebble in your shoe? Perhaps a gripe, a grudge, a resentment, or a complaint that is hobbling
August 10, 2010 | 3 comments
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~ Joseph Brotherton
July 30, 2010 | 4 comments
While attending the Humor Conference at Silver Bay last June, I watched one of the speakers put his audience through an interesting exercise to prove there is a lot more good going on around us than we realize. But we