Are you a CAN DO or a CAN’T DO?

April 24, 2012 | 3 comments

Someone was complaining to me about all the activities they couldn’t do in their life. They couldn’t walk very well. They couldn’t find much hope for tomorrow. They couldn’t heal a pain in their body. They couldn’t do this, that and the other

Forgive yourself

April 23, 2012 | 8 comments

At a recent tennis tournament, I lost a match I had my heart set on winning. It was the oddest experience for me, because typically I take match losses very well. But not this one! I internally fussed and fumed about what

Is violence history?

April 20, 2012 | 1 comment

Have you heard?  Violence is on the decline! Yep, that’s right, according to Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard. He argues that the world is a much safer place to live than in the past. He documents in