lifes

Not long ago my Mom passed.  Unexpectedly, 2 short weeks later,  my younger brother joined her.  Bereft,  I was suddenly adrift, my moorings gone.  How to belong in a world with mother and brother sized holes?  Sleepless, I walked, and…

Are you an introvert? Perhaps you are in a relationship with someone you consider introverted? Buy an “Intelligence is sexy” t-shirt! Introverts are delicate souls that hunger for love as much as the rest of us, we are all the same, but…

Maintaining a good relationship is hard. A happy, healthy partnership may get started easily enough, but that joyful honeymoon phase can pass all too quickly. Most truly blissful marriages are built on years of hard work. Thankfully,…

I love long road trips. Though a glance out my window today still shows Spring in the Rockies, a mix of rain and light snow, or, “snizzle”,  it’s not too soon to plan for summer travel.   And, like most of us,  when I feel safe, I feel…

In a recent conversation, I made the comment, "I really do think Tyler Durden had it right." Of course, I looked back into the blank stares of the people around me trying to figure out the point I was working my way toward making. I am a…

Recent research co-authored by Kristin Harris, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin, unveiled a stunning increase in our brain’s memory capacity. By a cautious  factor of 10,  human memory’s new size  puts it in…

One of the hardest things for me in life has been accepting the fact that my mind doesn't work like everyone else's. For the people who really know me, they know that is an understatement of epic proportions. I've come to terms with the…

One constant in life is that there will always be challenges. Some big. Some small. Either way, there are going to be times in life when it seems like the problems are adding up faster than you can fix them. The "snowball" effect can bury…