The need to make a difference in the world magnifies for some people as they age. It certainly has for me. I wake up every day to things...

I had a dream last night that I was killed in a car accident. I knew I was going to die, then it happened. I remember realizing I was...

“But you’re an artist, so you have to invent yourself,” his friend said to him as they were driven east on Sunset Boulevard. “I know I...

A client of mine had a keen observation to share one night as we drove up Hollywood Boulevard. First we both saw a woman in a very short,...

I ran over possum the other night. He was strolling across the off ramp at the same time I was flying off the freeway. It was four-thirty in the morning. We were both tired and probably not paying as much as attention as we would have at some other time of the day. Our eyes met for just a moment, the one that passed a fraction of a second before he went “thump, kerplunk” under the car. He turned his little head on his droopy shoulders and just gave me a look of indifference.

I had a bizarre dream the other night. I was taking some strangers to the airport, a large man wearing a suit and his large modestly clad...

The man was explaining to his wife about limiting liability. They had just left a party at a mansion in Los Angeles. The couple hosting...

Two college coeds discussed their favorite houses as they barreled down the street in the big black car. “That one is cool, it’s got like...

Life is lived a few breaths at a time. Stop breathing for a while and you will see this is true. Life should be lived in a similar way....

We humans need just a little bit of hope to reason living another day. There has to be an answer ahead of us, somewhere down the road,...

I think the ideal of a better future for mankind, one that is void of corruption, greed, discrimination, and cruelty, is in the hearts...

I had spent the first two years of my adulthood serving a mission for the Mormons. I rode my bike in the blistering Tennessee summers and...

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight and it is...

I drove through an intersection the other day where a small boy was killed by a motorist. Candles, teddy bears, angels and flowers were...

I think we are wired with the desire to leave something behind that will last for lifetimes after us. That is why people build things and...

This dream illustrates a moment when death is imminent but concerns at the moment are focused on property damage and financial...

The future will only improve when those living in the present accept the factual historical events that preceded their present. In order...

I came across a pigeon crawling along the road as I drove under a freeway overpass the other day. I swerved to avoid it but could not...

I met a middle aged woman who had, because of a brain injury, forgotten who she was. But she had people around to tell her who she was....

Let me tell you about a terrible nightmare I had last night. I found myself in a large, cold room. The floor was concrete, the walls were...

A transient was run over by a train around the corner from where I live yesterday. Her body was kind of strewn out over the stretch of...

I overheard some youthful college coeds talking about a student friend of theirs who had a visit to the ER. He had so much alcohol in his...

As my sons become men, their accomplishments, intellectually and otherwise, are more than I would ever dare take credit for, as I am not...

I think worldwide economic structure is going to have to adapt to technology that replaces human labor. And it is going to have to begin...