I never know who I’m going to meet or run into at my local Starbucks. One surprise came when the barista suggested one morning that I try something different, Read More
Thanks a Thousand
I find saying “thank you” a real chore, one I often put off so long I actually end up avoiding it completely. I know saying thanks can instantly change my Read More
Who Will I Feed Today?
Thanks to the Jesuit Post which I read faithfully, I discovered a new site, Happify, that I subscribed to today. This short, simple, well animated story from Happify tells how Read More
We Are All Called to be Builders
Can you imagine a world “of hopes, dreams and visions…where prophets speak…where peace and justice meet…where outcasts and strangers bear the image of God’s Face and the cross stands as Read More
A Tried and True Way
At the risk of sounding too much like an infamous contemporary tweeter who offered to send in the militia, I’d like to suggest a tried and true way to solve Read More
A Tomorrow Called Hope
As a teacher, I always thought my first job was to create a safe space for all. If I was successful at that, then some learning on my students’ as Read More
Telling Our Stories
Before modern media, the community would gather around the fire in the evening to recount the days events as well as to tell the story of their tribe, it’s encounter Read More
The Need for More
Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard claims to be a Marxist, a Groucho Marxist that is. In his TED Global 2014 talk, How to let altruism be your guide, he quotes Groucho Read More
Life/Work Balance
Governments and corporations are not going to solve the work/life balance we need in our life. So says Nigel Marsh in his How to make work-life balance work in his Read More