My most desperate moment of thankgiving didn’t happen in November. It was a winter evening in 2003, maybe February or March, with the type of bitter, frigid cold that freezes your eyelashes and takes your breath away. I was in the middle of a quarter-life crisis at the time, having quit my perfectly great advertising…

I was recently reading a book by Gary Zukav, “Soul to Soul,” and I came across a few interesting passages about people-pleasing. In the book, Gary actually hinted – or maybe even outright stated – that people-pleasing was a vice, not a virtue. He grouped it in with fear, anger, anxiety and doubt as something…

Where should we go, and what should we do, when everything in our world feels unsafe? I can’t think of a single place in the world that is absolutely safe. Even (or maybe especially) the places that are supposed to be our safest havens are at risk. Our schools, our churches, the movie theatres down…

Christmas is 45 days away. Does that news give you an anxiety attack, or fill you with peace and goodwill toward men? I doubt this is the first time Christmas has crossed your radar this year. Decorations have been in grocery stores since October (right next to the pumpkins), catalogues are arriving by the dozen…

I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to be an interesting person. When I catch up with old friends or relatives I haven’t seen in a while, I run through a mental list of noteworthy things I can share with them. “Let’s see, since the last time I saw you, I’ve gotten a…

I was holding my five-year-old son’s hand in his school’s parking lot yesterday afternoon when he casually pointed to the sidewalk. “That’s where we go line up when the fire bell rings, but we don’t go there when there are bad guys. When there are bad guys we hide in the bathroom.” Wait. What? Like…