Our youngest shared a friend’s Facebook post with us yesterday. It stands well enough on its own without any commentary from me… other...

There is no shortage of research detailing the perils of inadequate sleep. You don’t need me to add to that reading list. You also don’t...

Once a year, I indulge myself with an absolutely stunning drive across upstate New York and south of Syracuse through the Onondaga...

All of my choices are, in some measure, a sum of history, not just my history, but of all history. Every moment I spend staring at myself...

“Compared to what?” are among the most frequent words I hear when presenting results to my surveys, and rightly so. In so many aspects of...

I’m sorry… pardon me… excuse me, eh? I’m a Canadian going through an identity crisis. I’d like to say that this crisis has existed for...

I’ve just finished reading “Knife Fights” (2014) by Lt. Col. John A. Nagl (retired). I’ll explain why I read this book, well outside my...

Eulogy delivered at a memorial service in Simcoe Ontario on September 19, 2015 Before I begin, I’d like to share something my wife’s...

Harford, Pennsylvania is a community consisting of maybe six streets, located just off Interstate 81, about halfway between Scranton and...

The origins of do-it-yourself are the in origins of our species. No yellow pages, no fast food drive-thru, no accountants or doctors or...

Once upon a time, traveling across a desert, a circus train derailed, leaving the Bengal tiger’s cage door broken open. The tiger...

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein You may find yourself wondering about this one. It’s...

I forgot to call my brother this week to congratulate him on his 60th birthday. Well, that’s what I tell myself. Did I really forget?...

Lewis Rothschild: People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to anyone who steps up...

Our response to this question will be the struggle of the 21st century. Over the past 100 years, Western industrialized nations have been...

A friend forwarded this one to me recently. I'd seen it before, but feel it bears on the point of discussion. At a fund-raising dinner...

There's hockey… and then, there's hockey! I'm not particularly fit, not good with the puck, and not a great skater – but, I still play...

Blame the leptins, I say… or rather, the absence of leptins. Once upon a long time ago, in moments of midnight susceptibility, I could...

Consider the primary relationship between two people, a man and a woman. No one who has ever been part of such a relationship could think...

A year ago, I blogged about a school where my surveys yielded anomalously high scores coming from Grade 8 students and from Grade 8...

When a man finds himself on the simple, logical, and convincingly winning side of an argument with his wife, all is lost and the end is...

My wife and I are in the midst of an interesting, educational, and highly entertaining conversation with our daughter. She'd like an...

Forgive me, but while I regularly speak for hours without notes, that just isn't going to happen today. In the words of Clint Eastwood,...

In the Autumn of 2002, my wife and I were traveling by car from a conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our plans were for a leisurely two...