A Different New Year’s Resolution
Common New Year’s resolutions involve quitting something such as smoking or drinking, eating too much, being too sedentary, being rude [...]
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01, 2018
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09, 2016
Isn’t Self-Esteem a Good Thing?
A perceptive friend told me that, though she agrees with my often-expressed criticism of the self-esteem movement (see, for example, [...]
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10, 2014
Adjusting Our Expectations
There is an old saying, “Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.” Whether it was [...]
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02, 2014
The Pharisee’s Confession
I know it couldn’t have happened, but imagine that the Pharisee in the famous Gospel parable had gone to confession. [...]
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01, 2014
Learning from Our Mistakes
Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By this [...]