Too often we are part of the proverbial herd. We simply plod along with all the other people who are plodding along because everyone else is plodding along. The herd is kept together through some false sense that there must be a mutually agreed upon destination that is compelling enough for everyone to join forces in a mass march toward that … [Read more...]

Life is a road. And in navigating that road, more often than not we’re in the sluggish right lane of life. In the right lane we’re doing little more than pacing ourselves based on the person in front of us who’s pacing themselves based on the person in front of them, and so on. And it is here that our lives become less about some electrifying … [Read more...]

It seems that we don’t see anything as sacred anymore. It seems that life has been stripped of the scared and diminished in the stripping. There are very few things that we hold in such high regard that we stand enthralled by just the thought of them. Not much captures our imaginations or takes our breath away. Very seldom do we stand mesmerized … [Read more...]

If we want a ready definition of insanity, it seems that we only have to look at adolescents. There’s something about this innately difficult life transition that’s peppered with an invasive dose of insanity and some unidentifiable degree of irrationality. And because this appears to be the case, we often stand back in fear questioning if they’ll … [Read more...]

What is independence? What is it? Not some pathetically amended definition that we’ve concoctedover the years through our cultural revisionism or politically correct notions. Not an agenda-driven definition skewed by a narcissistic sense of entitlement, or shaped by the slanted idea that independence is a right verses a privilege. Not some … [Read more...]