No need to compare

January 13, 2010 | 2 comments

Are you ever tempted to compare yourself to others? Do you ever think, “They have a better job than I have, she is much smarter than me, he has his life so under control, everything goes right for my friends

Is there something better than consumerism?

January 12, 2010 | 2 comments

Here’s an interesting article written by Amitai Etzioni for The New Republic and reprinted in Utne Reader, on the subject of society getting too weighed down in consumerism. One might not agree with all his conclusions, but he does a

Funny story

January 11, 2010 | 3 comments

A story that came through my email. It will get your day started with a chuckle…     The Bagpiper     As a bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a