Reaching back into the past fulfills a need to connect with the history that makes us who we are as we move forward into the future. We...

Youth have to interpret life with very little information to base their theories on. The knowledge they have most of is that which has...

I overheard two elderly women talking over a burger at In-N-Out during lunch today. They were talking about the weather, which is a big...

My wife and two boys and I attended a wedding this past weekend. Weddings, births, and funerals are the hyper reminders of how life moves...

It’s easy to forgive and forget the acts of some people from our past. I find it easiest to forgive my childhood peers. I hope they find...

When it comes to the expression of love between two people, there are a lot of different ways to get the message across. Deeds work on...

Before I became a father it was difficult to understand how I would be able to divide my love between the children I would eventually...

I bought something so sleek today, so minimalist in design, so hip, so modern looking, that I couldn’t figure out how to turn it on. It...

Creativity is best expressed when passion has reached a boiling point. Then the desire to produce something, and the desire to please...

Places farther away seem farther in the past, even if they are not. My son Blake and I were talking about some times we had while living...

I had the good fortune tonight of listening in, and ultimately participating in, a conversation about consumption, the need for more, and...

Connecting. It’s what people want to do. Connecting with each other, with nature, with their inner feelings. Some want to be connected...

Our thoughts are inspired by our feelings, which are driven by our thoughts about the environment around us. We process ourselves...

Letting go of negative experiences allows us to move forward. The quicker we can train ourselves to do this, the faster, and further, we...

Art can be more or less. It can be gobs of paint tossed on a canvas or a thoughtful depiction of a life scape by a master. It can be a...

When people dream, they don’t dream of being poor and insignificant. They don’t dream of complacency, of living out their lives in one...

I have never met anyone who wanted to be old. Sure, kids want to grow up sooner than time will allow them to, but even when they reach...

I think there will come a time when graphics and storage capabilities are advanced enough to empower one person or a small team of...

Everyone seems to want to go somewhere. All the time. People are in a constant state of motion. I’m sitting on a bench under a tree in a...

I think that people who fail, or who are in the process of failing, or are temporarily failing, or have decided to devote their lives to...

The human race has the power, right now, to connect every soul on the planet. With the implementation of just a fraction of deferred...

Projecting how technology will encroach on our livelihoods should be given much thought by anyone concerned with their future. Much of...

We place labels on each other and divide ourselves from the rest of the human race. Being a “mod,” for instance, means one likes a...

Dear God, I have never come across anyone who has been the recipient of the amount of criticism you have been. And I have never heard of...