The human heart is a desire factory. I see this reality so clearly in my 5-year-old son, Henry. It’s breathtaking how quickly the thrill of getting something he wants for Christmas, for instance, can be displaced by the idea that the next present he op …
A few weeks ago my brothers and I discovered Voxer. We live hundreds of miles apart and don’t often get the chance to talk. We text and email, but rarely talk. Then along came Voxer, a smart phone app that turns our phones into a type of walkie-talkie. …
Yesterday my friend Diana showed me a TED Talk video with Shawn Achor that talks about “The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance.” Achor’s research is based on positive psychology, which is basically the idea that the more positi …
I don’t know about you, but I like the Internet. Actually, scratch that. I might know a little bit about you: I suspect you might like the Internet, too. After all, that’s where you’re reading this, right? Personally, the Internet is the information, c …
One hundred years is a long time. Many things have changed in our world since the colossal White Star Line luxury liner, Titanic, set out on her maiden and final voyage a century ago, as fans of Downton Abbey know all too well. I once had the opportuni …
So are you tired of all the political talk yet? Does it exhaust you to see pundit after pundit talk about the various candidates running for presidential office? As much as I love my work in Public Policy, I will confess that I’m glad to “leave” it eac …
Before graduation from the Ohio high school I attended, every senior was required to write a major research paper. I honestly don’t remember what I wrote on, but I remember how I wrote it. I went to the library, found resources and pulled together a pa …
Q: What’s blue and white and gets checked 90 gazillion times a day? A: Facebook! Whenever I am online (which is often due to the fact that I am a seminary student and therefore find the need to procrastinate a lot), I check my Facebook. When I am out a …
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