Don’t let love slip away because of something you should have said but didn’t. Open your heart and your mouth. You’re risking everything, so you might as well come out with both barrels blazing. You don’t want a mind full of What Might [...]

These days you hear a lot about underdeveloped nations turning away from the supposedly corrupt influence of Western civilization. There was a time in the not too distant past when such nations were eager to learn the formula for success in the West. Many [...]

It’s not the big disappointments in life that bug you, but the accumulation of petty annoyances that often drive people over the edge. When someone lashes out viciously over spilt milk, rest assured that the spilt milk is just the tip of a pretty [...]

No, that’s not a typo in the title, folks, and yes, you’re right, there is no such thing. There almost was, though, a week-long film festival scheduled for the city of Jeddah. Sort of reminds one of organizing an Amish Technology Expo or a Goldman [...]

Heavy drinkers understand gravity better than most. They’re real science buffs, those people, testing that theory all the [...]

Newspaper editors are smart people. They’ve been around the block a time or two and there’s very little under the sun that surprises them. Theirs is a high-paced business demanding a rapid response to events great and small, the operative 3 [...]

The game of soccer is a celebration of the very ordinary being bested by the mildly coordinated, with no athletes of any discernible skill taking part in the festivities on either side. Good thing too, or the score would be around 150 to 0 and the [...]

So today the news reports bring us another huge Duuuh! It seems that illegal Mexican immigrants and drug smugglers are taking to the seas to get around the Great Wall of Mexico being built between America and Mexico and the crazed vigilantes who like nothing [...]

Life is alternately beautiful, ugly, easy, hard, simple, complex, funny, tragic, ideal, frustrating, exciting, boring, joyful and sad. It is well worth hanging on to. All of these experiences make you more alive, more interesting, stronger and wiser. [...]

On the twin 40th anniversaries of 2 seminal American events, the Moon Landing and the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, there’s one burning question in the minds of many Americans on how to commemorate these memories: Should we spring for the ruby? [...]