When humans first starting chucking golf balls around for fun, golf balls looked quite different than they do today. They were shiny and...

Locker room talk has been getting a pretty bad rap lately, so that’s why I was a bit surprised when I got an unexpected gift from a few...

I’ve been watching and listening carefully the past few weeks as debate over immigration in America has heated up and caught afire.  I’ve...

“Who does she think she is, anyway?” you hear a friend saying.  “She’s not so special.  Her marriage is failing/her career is in...

I have a lengthy set of notes stored in my iPhone that I use specifically to keep track of facts that I can use in fictitious arguments...

Have you ever wondered why Oprah is so rich and successful?  Oprah Winfrey is known around the world as a thought leader and brilliant...

When we think of gratitude we often gravitate toward giving thanks to the people and things that have made our lives better – usually the...

“Do you like where you keep your checkbook?” I asked my husband as I idly stirred some pasta on the stove.  “I’m going to organize the...

I always assumed that having kids would teach me how to love.  I just never imagined that parenthood would teach me how to love not just...

I have a confession to make. When it comes to feeling good enough in my life, a big portion of my feeling of self-worth has always been...

When I was single (a time that spanned almost three decades), I had many opportunities to spend Christmas and New Year’s Eve (not to...

It was 12:45 a.m., and my husband, Lancelot, and I were stuck in the Charlotte airport. Our flight to Dayton had been cancelled and we...

My most desperate moment of thankgiving didn’t happen in November. It was a winter evening in 2003, maybe February or March, with the...

I was recently reading a book by Gary Zukav, “Soul to Soul,” and I came across a few interesting passages about people-pleasing. In the...

Where should we go, and what should we do, when everything in our world feels unsafe? I can’t think of a single place in the world that...

I was holding my five-year-old son’s hand in his school’s parking lot yesterday afternoon when he casually pointed to the sidewalk....