March 22, 2026 “What’s your biggest fear?”  This was the question my 7-year old asked me the other day and, for some reason, I didn’t find it to be an easy one to answer.  I guess it’s one of those few questions that someone can ask us, which often may cause us to repeat the…

March 8, 2026 Meeting someone for the first time, no matter what the occasion, is awkward.  Perhaps this is because so many things are happening in such a brief snippet of time: snap judgements occur within milliseconds; sweaty palms, while we simultaneously try to listen, speak and produce non-verbal cues and slick movements into the…

February 22, 2026 How many unread emails do you have in your inbox?  Some believe you can tell a lot about a person based on this figure.  Sure, I’ll bite:  If it’s in the hundreds or even thousands, does it mean that we’re lazy or that we’re just too busy doing actual stuff to be…

February 15, 2026 Is music getting worse?  This is the question that every person of a certain generation faces once they reach the age where their “shit isn’t cool” anymore.  This realization occurs around the same time they notice that somebody much younger than them doesn’t understand real music, because they’ve never truly listened to…

January 25, 2026 Ever think of your living body like an automobile?  You know, the older we get, the more shit starts to fall apart on us, so we sputter on into an expert who is qualified to tell us: “well, if it ain’t the ignition switch, it might be the starter, or could be…