It would probably make your day if your boss, banker, partner, or spouse called you and told you how important you are. In fact, it would be great if more people around you would tell you…
When I finished law school in 2006, my parents gave me a nice graduation gift. I penned many of the most important documents with it: wrote essays on the bar exam, signed my mortgage documents,…
Who can tell me what’s going to happen tomorrow? How about a week, a month, or a year from now? I’ve tried. I can’t. In fact, no one has ever been able to accurately predict…
How many times were you asked what your New Year’s Resolutions were yesterday? Nearly every conversation that I had, “resolutions” came up. Of course, the answers were typically some variation of losing weight, exercising more,…
This morning I read some sad news on Facebook. Mary McKnight passed away on Christmas Eve. I had so many questions: What happened? Had she been sick? Was this sudden and shocking to her fiancé,…
When I was a kid, I remember one random Saturday morning when my dad set out to teach us all a lesson. He had a “family huddle,” which was few and far between, and he…
This morning, I was thinking about the story of Narcissus who caught sight of his reflection on the surface of the sea and was so infatuated that he slowly fell in and drowned while chasing…