With all due respect to Forrest Gump, life is more like a jigsaw puzzle than a box of chocolates. Some pieces are easy and enjoyable to connect while others frustratingly

On a cold February day in 1964, an unknown musician named Paul Simon penned the words to a song that would initially be a commercial failure and lead to ridicule

Before the days of pervasive GPS, when driving to new destinations I would often get lost. It wasn’t that I had a poor sense of direction, rather, my stubbornness

Let’s Make a Deal was a popular game show when I was young. While the show never captured my interest, I was inspired by contestants willing to risk everything

Do you brush your teeth in the morning? How about when you go to sleep at night? Well, if you’re like most of the world, you partake of the

I studied French for a few years in high-school. At first the language seemed so strange. The words, and particularly the sounds, were quite difficult to understand and reproduce. But

As kids we ask "why" for just about everything. Why does the sun rise? Because the earth rotates. Why does the earth rotate? Because it has always been spinning. Why

I grew up when the only option for music outside my sparse album collection was listening to the radio. Not satellite radio with hundreds of stylistic choices - rather, just

A newspaper is better than a magazine. A seashore is a better place than a street. At first, it is better to run than to walk. You may have to

Let's do a little experiment. Place your left hand on your lap. Let it lie still there for a moment. Then, whenever you are ready, raise your hand off your

When I was young I often wondered why mirrors seemed to flip left and right but not up and down. As I would move my right hand, the mirror depicted

It’s unsettling to consider how many of our thoughts are centered on our own self-interest. The clothes we wear, the words we speak, the food we eat, and nearly