Making lots of money is over valued. Freedom from debt and unnecessary financial obligation is under valued. It's not how much money you...

I have long held the belief that the average American does not have enough respect for the fine art of wasting time. Before you indict m...

F ire has come a long way since the day of the Promethean gift. I am reading in today's New York Times of a recent experiment to bend...

M usic appreciation is a very personal concern. The following comments are as objective as I can be -- because, I was a fan, from 1964 and ...

picture from Library of Congress via pingnews I t is Memorial Day. The day we commemorate American war veterans, and particularly the men an...

I t seems beauty really can save the world, or at least a part of it. 60 Minutes reported on a man in Venezuela who has been teaching poor...

photo by Patchouly/Flickr I read once of the possibility, in odds, of the millions of variables necessary to keep life sustainable on earth...

I have made no secret of the fact that I have been spending more time in Philly than in Fort Worth. One obvious difference between the two...

I use iGoogle as my home page . There are three columns on the webpage: the center column is news and email, the right is the list of stock...

O ne of the joys of being raised in the colder climes was snow. What is to accomplishment-minded adults a nuisance, and to skiers a medium ...

I happen to like words. Put a few of them together and you get a phrase, a clause, or even a sentence, the yeoman of language because it is...

I f you use Yahoo as home on your browser , you notice how they continuously update their news. Decisions for what gets in and what gets m...

T raveling is the great equalizer. Rich, famous, poor and unknown, everyone gets pretty much the same bad treatment. Frequent travelers do ...

N ever preface bad news. Everyone has to deliver the bad news occasionally. When you do, start with the worst part, keep it short, and never...

I n the tradition of separating humanity into two and only two groups on any given topic, I propose the following question: Do you or do yo...

T his is the weekly , Food and Faith segment. If that sounds about as exciting as watching grass grow, move to the next post, I understand....

W hen you are away from home for a while, and when you have lived at that home with a certain routine for a while, you start to miss things....

E v eryday , in the morning paper, I find myself reading one or two of the thirty-odd obituaries. I’m not sure why I do this but I do. I hav...

Fort Worth Star Telegram . August 8, 2007, Front Page: 756 . B arry Bonds, on the evening of August 7th, surpassed Henry (Hank) Aaron'...

W hen I am searching for reviews, whether it be a hotel, restaurant or attraction, I am looking for a reviewer with similar tastes. Makes ...