Is your approach to online dating like car shopping?

A recently married man in his mid-thirties commented: “In my experience in online dating, you spend time searching for someone, connect with her, and enjoy three or four dates. But it’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking, ‘Well, this has been nice and seems promising, but I bet if I keep looking I’ll find just the perfect… Read More

Has technology created an abyss of boredom and stupidity?

Have we really moved into passive mode? A character in The Truth Teller by Angel Hunt voices his disgust with the state of the human race: “… By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has created an abyss of boredom and stupidity that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations ever plumbed. The… Read More

wounded by words

“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” NOT TRUE! Researchers have shown that the same area of the brain lights up—the interior cingulate gyrus—when you experience hurtful words as it does when you experience physical pain. Words are real—they enter your brain as electro-magnetic forces; they become thoughts. Every… Read More

That’s not part of my job description!

They don’t pay me to clean the office! Roman law made it legal for a Roman citizen or soldier to force anyone who lived in one of their conquered lands to carry his load—backpack, duffle bag, heavy weapons, whatever—for him for one mile, but only one mile. Have you ever been asked to do–or assigned–a task… Read More