I’ve stumbled up and down the wide, steep walkways atop the Great Wall. I’ve walked through root-choked temples in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. I’ve rounded the chilly, isolated point of Cape Horn. I’ve dug a steaming, do-it...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the flap caused by Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s comments about gay people and black people. In cases like this one, it’s important to have the facts, beginning...
My last trip to the dentist? Four years ago. I know, I know. Yes, dental insurance is a perk of my job. Yes, I know I’m supposed to go once every six months for a check-up. Yes, I know dental health correlates with heart health. But my last...
The happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do. — Cal Newport, So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Photo...
A cold, grey, rainy Saturday afternoon is a perfect time to see a great documentary. (Oh, who am I kidding? If Atlanta’s weather had been sunny skies and seventy degrees, we would have been in the theater today.) So we barreled down Cheshire...
I am, perhaps, the only geek among my geeky high school friends who didn’t read the Tolkien books. I never read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I never read The Hobbit. Perhaps this was because the person who introduced me to them insisted I...
Photo Credit: Flickr user Khun Jarco The makers of Instagram, the popular online photo sharing service owned by Facebook, announced today that the world’s most Instagrammed location is Bangkok’s Siam Paragon megamall. (As it turns out...
I defy you to find a Christmas song more contrived, cranked up, and cloying than “Christmas Shoes.” I mean, how many layers of sappy sentiment can one holiday ditty be dipped in? Take a squeaky-clean white kid … make him poor...
“When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of...
“As they say in the Sikh religion — Once you realize God knows everything, you’re free … [S]uddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are...
