One of my kids always used to say that.  He doesn’t anymore.  Maybe growing into adolescence has forced him to be less blindly optimistic. Anyway… Just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Bright-Sided.  (How the relentless promotion...

  “You know, it wouldn’t kill you to get down on your knees occasionally.” (cartoon courtesy of the Friendly Atheist.) …

    “It doesn’t hurt to get down on your knees once in a while.” …

If you’re like me and you live in a cold-weather climate, you probably go through this thought process every year, once the first serious snow starts to fall: “Here we go again…” No matter how much I look forward to skiing, it’s still hard to accept...

Spent a few weeks recently touring Switzerland with my loving wife and wonderful children.  (Standing on the glacier beside the Matterhorn, my 15-year-old opined that the Matterhorn wasn’t anywhere near as cool as the Maroon Bells, which is within...