There is a lot to be cynical about in our democracy in the United States. Corporations have huge amounts of undue influence because of the w...

Discipline has always been one of my most challenging areas. More specifically I mean spending my time wisely, keeping focused and finishing...

A continuation of last week's entry... 3) You Must Suffer: Accept it, deep down inside. If you want to lose weight, you will and must su...

So what does weight loss have to do with virtue? In general, I think that good personal health should be considered an ethical issue. We hav...

My Dad runs a soup kitchen out of his church, which serves the poor in the lower income area of his home town. Recently he was telling me ab...

The things some people will try. It's unfortunate that scams work on some poor people, but one telephone scammer made the mistake of cal...

I only recently discovered when my wife informed me, that Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reigndeer was an invention of Montgomery Wards as a promotion...

My wife just showed me her new textbook for her next class in Quantum Mechanics. She said, "Look, it's got a kitty on it!" an...

The internet is one place where you can find someone willing to say just about anything. In a way, that has lead to a flood of some of the m...

Yesterday I stopped to get some gas and went inside the shop to get a newspaper. The lady behind the counter seemed flustered, rung me up, a...