
Dying and Immortality
I have metastatic bone cancer. I do not know how much longer I have left. I’m not quite dying yet.

I have metastatic bone cancer. I do not know how much longer I have left. I’m not quite dying yet.


“Prayer Works” is the title of hundreds of books and the subject of thousands of sermons and road signs. In

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness,” said Thoreau. We are told that faith

“Life isn’t logical” says director Quentin Dupieux. Julie James writes “Life isn’t always about logic and reasons….particularly when it comes

What do heaps, jail, and cows have to do with your marriage and your friends or your workmates, roommates, and

Mistakes and failures are part of life, but there is a right way and a wrong way of dealing with them. The right way is a sex step process: take responsibility, make amends, learn form it, emotionally process, change your behavior, and move on. If you follow them, you will cherish your mistakes. Wrong ways include deflecting to avoid taking responsibility (blaming others, for example), not making amends, and wallowing in guilt and shame and getting stuck in the past (not moving on). Failure is sewn into our nature, but failure is a gift. It can be a door into a new world.

What Is a Healthy Relationship? There are many kinds of health and many kinds of healthy relationships. As I argued

Loneliness, says Deborah Orr, “is an ailment of modernity…hardwired into modern life.” But while the wired world has made us

Marilyn Monroe famously said “if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me

More nonsense has been written about love than about anything else except maybe toenail fungus. People say that love, which

“I want it all,” sang Queen, Bruce Springsteen, High School Musical, and many others. “Never settle” has 6.7 million