"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among…
If you've ever hired a babysitter, then you know that sinking feeling any new parent has when they leave their child with someone new. In fact, there was a recent…
The old saying is "give till it hurts." But that isn't actually the best way to give.
For many years I have been reading and studying the power of philanthropy. I've…
OK, I have to be honest, I have mixed feelings about gift bags. I guess I have too many fond memories of my mom laboring over just the right wrapping…
Today is the anniversary of my ordination to the diaconate in November of 2009. I would be ordained to the priesthood later in March of 2010.
Listen to one of the…
"I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves." OSMEL SOUSA, the longtime head of the Miss Venezuela pageant on the popularity of…
The packaging is more colorful, the content is said to be far and away so much better than the old product, and millions of dollars in advertising will be spent…
"You are what you eat." So goes the the saying that has at times served as a means to get people to have better diets, and a way for philosophers…
There is a saying popular in this modern age: "He who dies with the most toys, wins!"
It is an apt description of a modern age that has forgotten itself. A…
It's absolutely uncanny how many times I've discovered the beauty and benefits of complimentary talents in couples. While it is true that the long a couple is together, the more…