Our son has reached that age where he’s starting to mainline some of the same shows we do. The other day he completed HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley,’ a funny little 6-season series following the trials…

A popular mobile game called Wordscapes requires players to create an exhaustive list of words from a handful of letters in order to solve an associated crossword puzzle. Since I fancy myself something of…

The spiritual search is fed on surrender. The more we hand over the reins, the more life or God or whatever meets us half-way. In essence, the besieged, frightened, miserable ego reaches a point…

Your eye has three receptors for perceiving red, blue, and green. The eye and brain then combine those colors to allow for approximately 300 different shades of color (e.g. orange, purple, yellow, and so…

More than 13 years ago I fell to my knees and gave up. Literally gave up. And out came the words: “I can’t do this anymore, I’m so tired of hurting, of being afraid.…

It wakes you in the wee hours when you want only to sleep, whispers in your ear while you celebrate yet another milestone birthday, gazes up at you from earth or urn when you…