Growing up in the Midwest, Christmas was something my family launched into at full speed. Then that seemed to slow a bit the older I got. Present Day, my Christmas comes in the middle of the month. Traveling back to the Kansas City area to see my family, exchanging gifts, then it’s back home to…… MORE
For 29 years, every Thanksgiving I’ve ever had has probably been a lot like yours. You know, visit relatives, stuff your face, watch football, stuff your face again, fall asleep in the fourth quarter, refuse relatives’ requests to go line-up for Black Friday deals, find a way to stuff your face one more time, sleep…… MORE
I have been meditating for the past seven years and most of the time its like clock work. I initially started meditating to calm down from work and basic life stress. I made it a point to turn my living space into a true sanctuary no matter what city I was living in. However, the…… MORE
No doubt we are all breathing a sign of relief today…especially those of us in the news media (now we can start chasing new, un-election related stories!) But in the meantime…last night I was very focused on social media. One because I was live tweeting election results for my job and two because I’m fascinated with…… MORE
Today, finally, is election day and I will say no more about it. Except this: For sixteen months we’ve been treated by the candidates, the media and our own friends to a daily avalanche of vicious insults and variously skilled manipulations of truth, maybe more than at any time in American history. This has been the…… MORE