I wrote this in my journal last week: “All worthy institutions fade into irrelevancy in the absence of compassion.” The statement could have been ref...

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It’s fairly humorous how three (or, for some people, four) short years are unpacked, dissected, evaluated, processed, angsted over, and held in carefu...

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10 years ago on Sunday, my wife and I became parents for the first time as we welcomed our oldest daughter into the world. I had read some of the rig...

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I don’t get engrossed in a lot of chit-chat at the gym. Usually I’m pretty business-like, focused on getting in some quality cardio, strengths-trainin...

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“If you love something, you never get tired of it—I mean love in which there is no seeking of a result, no wanting something out of it.” Krishnamurti...

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It’s less than an hour before my youngest child hits the milestone age of five. The house is quiet; I’m eating a bowl of cereal and wondering how I ca...

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I am struggling to fall asleep tonight—or should I say this morning, the first moments of April 30, 2010, the 20th anniversary of my graduation from c...

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Now that I’m at the stage where some people are starting to read the manuscript I spent eight months writing and re-writing (and re-writing some more)...

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