Beyond the Rhetoric

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” Quality is far more important and valuable than quantity. And this is particularly well represented by English poet John Keats. He only lived to [...]

Every Wednesday, I share five interesting blog posts that I’ve found through my travels on the Internet. Let’s jump right into this week’s selection. Starting with Josepf Haslam, we gain insight to the 12 most important life lessons we can learn from Forrest Gump. He may not have been a smart man, but he knew [...]

As we do every Wednesday around these parts, let’s see what’s happening out there in the wonderful world of blogging. We start off by visiting Trent Hamm on The Simple Dollar. He reminds us that today matters and it is “the only day that really matters.” You would think that setting goals means that we [...]

There are a lot of things that we learned as we made our way through high school. We went to geography class, where we learned about tectonic plates and how Mt. Everest came to be. We went to chemistry class and learned about the periodic table of the elements. We went to cooking class and [...]

“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy [...]