I’m not big on goal-setting. I know, I know. Heresy! Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Might as well go start heating up the boiling oil, because it’s true. Oh, I’ve tried to be. For years I’ve read that the secret to success is to master goal-setting. And I’ve given it the old...
There is a Greek myth about a man named Antaeus, whom we know about mainly because Herakles had to fight him on the way to the eleventh of his one dozen fiendishly difficult tasks, better known as “the twelve labors of Hercules.” So Herakles had to fight this dude....
My mom was a storyteller. Of all her stories, one of my favorites was her riff about the irate parent and the French class. It goes like this. A devoted lifelong grade school teacher, my mom loved her kids. “It’s the adults I have a hard time with,” she confided to me...
It was a Saturday. I was over at a friend’s house, and he mentioned a few friends of his and said, “Hey, did you hear about their idea, about starting a new school?” No, I hadn’t heard, not till that moment. It sounded like an awesome idea. I was in. And that was...
I smoked for twenty-eight years. Since I was a solid pack-a-day guy for more or less that entire time, this translates into ten thousand, two hundred twenty-seven packs (including leap years). You’d think by that time I would have had enough. Which was exactly what I...
