The 2015 movie Inside Out is the story of Riley, a boisterous 11-year-old girl, or more specifically, the inner emotions of her brain, respectively portrayed by a cast of animated
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Once again, Germantown MD has made the short list of most diverse cities in the nation, this year coming in at #1 based on a carefully calculated amalgam of ethnic,
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As President Jimmy Carter now terminally nears the end of his long life at age 98, I am compelled to make a left-field comparison of two American giants of the
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Influence comes in many flavors: fame, quick-wittedness, smarts, sway, charm. Influence is a form of power over other people. It’s the ability to get other people to do things –
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By now, many of you have heard the sad statistics comparing pre-pandemic and post-pandemic literacy rates at the 2nd grade level in our community. If not, I’ll review: in 2019,
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In 2020, when disgruntled parties like me were reconciling ourselves with the reality of the Black Lives Matter movement, I decided to go back to a trusted source and picked
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The Keurig/K-pod was a brilliant invention. Individualized portions. Ostensibly fresh packets. Brewed for just one cup in literally seconds. No mess. No leftovers. What more could you want? It was
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You may or may not be into New Year’s Resolutions. But regardless, folks who are serious about living life well will invariably take a few minutes at the top of
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It should be alarming how much we have personalized the Christmas story. The story of a child born ‘for us’ and the love God shows to humanity through this birth
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The principle of “acting as if” is an old concept that was first written about a century ago by William James who was a philosopher and also a trained physician.
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