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I walked past our girls’ room yesterday and saw a book lying open-faced in the chair. On the earmarked page it read, “By the time he was 57, President George Washington was completely...
My American friends told me that Hong Kong was ‘like New York on steroids.’ Having grown up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I was skeptical about the Asian city’s intensity or...
In a documentary I recently saw, an Inuit child was happily romping around inside her family’s igloo. The interior temperature was just a tad above 32 degrees. She was naked. Human beings can...
Matt Tuckey, who blogs at Carlisle Family, writes about the obvious value of exercise. It prolongs life by expanding lungs, stretching muscles...
Businesses are, in a way, like families. It used to be that a family was thought of as Mom and Dad, plus two or three kids - and maybe a dog. Today a...
If your happiness is based on external things, then what peace you may find in this life will be a fragile thing, regularly shattered by others.
We’re on our way home from a family vacation, zipping down long ribbons of asphalt. July afternoon spills hot through the windshield...
I didn’t hear much about Joseph’s second robe as a kid. I can picture the first on early flannel graphs and take-home Sunday school papers, and I remember the Technicolor version, but the...
For many of us, connecting work with spiritual life is an elusive quest.
On the way to her tonsillectomy, we laugh, she and I, talk of what flavor of ice cream she’d most like afterwards, when it’s all finished and she’s home, what books I might...
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and...
Right priorities balance on some razor thin edge (probably imaginary) and it always feels like I'm leaning one way or another. I'm typically at the office from 8 to 7:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays...
