We have a big, black cat named Doodle. Doodle has yellow eyes, and he’s heavy with muscle. The hair in his coat is short. He does not shed much. He has compact, wide ears on a broad head. His hind leg...
I am finite. I am limited. I cannot tell the end from the beginning. Sometimes that makes for a good time at the movies as I wait in suspense to see not only what is going to happen next, but also how...
Have you ever noticed how frequently we are defined by our job? Go to a party, start making small talk with people you meet for the first time and inevitably the question will come up, “What do you do...
In science, especially the philosophy of science that guides how science is done, a now outworn approach was called “positivism”.
Positivism asserted that what you see when you look is actually there,...
I do a fair amount of work with couples. Some folks are married and some are not. Most are living with one another, although some have separated and they are attempting to find a way back towards one ...
In psychology character is what you do based on who you are. Or, more precisely, it is what you do based on the story you tell yourself about who you are, and that story is one that is formed over tim...
I am wondering about our capacity to see or hear — to perceive. For instance, is “seeing” with the heart more than a metaphor? Is there a way of perceiving that exceeds our usual senses? For that matt...
Children are a gift of the Lord. The Bible says that a person is blessed “whose quiver is full of them”. Sometimes when children are growing up it does not seem that they are such a blessing. Early on...
This morning I read about John Malvo, the now 27-year-old man who terrorised Washington, DC about ten years ago by sniping at people from a car with high-powered rifle.
Malvo expressed remorse and sa...
Imagine it is Sunday morning, and you decide to go to church. However, you don't have a home church; it was just a wild idea that occurred to you, and now you are stuck not knowing which church to act...
