Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately. - - - Charles M. Sheldon   On the evening of December 31st, a group of my friends and I used to sit around a table and tell each other our New Year’s resolutions. I resolve to...

Healing doesn’t happen in a straight line. You get the flu, you fall into a downward spiral and you feel awful. A few days later, you start to feel better, you go on an upswing and you’re relieved that it’s over. But the next day, you feel badly again and you’re back...

Music is the silences between the notes.                                                  - - - Claude Debussy There is a word for the fear of silence. Sedatephobia. It comes from the word “sedate” and the word “phobia.” People who have this syndrome experience...

A friend of mine caught the flue recently and when the worst symptoms were gone, he didn’t feel well for another several weeks. He was terribly impatient. I would have been, too, and each day he woke up, he was bummed out that he still didn’t feel strong and healthy....