Category: progress

Drug ads sell disease

August 29, 2006 | No comments yet

Check out an insightful csmonitor.com article on how drug ads sell sickness to promote their products. The article reports that in the effort of pharmaceutical companies to create new disease markets, they’re frightening people into taking more prescriptions than they

Don’t give up

August 22, 2006 | 1 comment

I’m vacationing with my family at our cabin in the Blue Mountains in Oregon State for a few days. My son and I have been splitting wood for burning in the woodstove this winter. Operating an axe is not one

Relax

August 17, 2006 | 1 comment

While working on improving my tennis serve, my coach told me to relax. I was too tense, he said, causing me to make many errors. He was right. I quickly saw that I needed to loosen up. When tense, my

Worry less love more

August 4, 2006 | 1 comment

An adage I find helpful to remember at times… “Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives us plenty to do, but gets us nowhere.”

The Israelis, the Palestinians, and land

July 27, 2006 | No comments yet

The Hizballahs attacked the Israelis with rockets over Israel’s northern border, and the Israelis are counter-attacking fiercely. There’s fear of a larger conflict erupting in an already red-hot Middle East. Will the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis ever cease?