Tag: anger

How I dealt with noisy neighbors

January 2, 2012 | 11 comments

During a short lecture trip to Roseburg, Oregon, recently, I stayed a night at a Courtyard Marriott up north near the Eugene airport. After I unpacked and ironed my clothes for the lecture the next day, I set up my

My run-in with a paper cutter

November 18, 2011 | 9 comments

What I’m about to tell you rarely happens to my thought, but it happened recently, and I learned a valuable lesson from it.  So here goes… I had a stack of flyers to cut in half.  Kathy had a paper

Responding to other people’s errors

June 8, 2011 | 5 comments

Do you ever get steaming angry at people who make poor judgments or mistakes? The anger may feel wholly justified, because after all, the human mind reasons, “They screwed up, and I don’t like it! They deserve to suffer for

Egypt’s fight for freedom

February 4, 2011 | 7 comments

The Egyptian people’s quest for freedom has much of the world in suspense wondering what is going to happen next. The struggle between the status quo and higher ideals is intense. It’s been building for decades. I was heartened by