“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your...
Upon moving to Virginia after four years in New York City, I understand the difficulty of finding a NYC bagel outside the city. I’ve read all the theories...
We spend the majority of our daily waking hours at work. Sometimes work seems like all we do. The endless cycle can be daunting, exhausting, or boring. We...
A major theme in contemporary society is despair. The rise in hopelessness has been so significant that sociologists have coined a new term: “deaths of despair.” Time magazine...
I looked at the stiff, gaudy gold couch, quickly convinced myself I could like it, and handed the owner half of her asking price until I could come...
It is part of human development that people from every generation must come to terms with and decide what to accept from the faith traditions they inherit from...
The promise of religion has much more to do with the next world than with this one. None of the great religions can be pursued seriously except upon...
A few years ago, The Huffington Post’s blog “Wait But Why” created “Lucy,” an imagined embodiment of today’s emerging adult. Lucy is what the article calls a GYPSY,...
A popular bumper sticker in my current home state of Michigan reads something like this: “A bad day of fishing beats a good day at work,” which prompts...
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