A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Emily Borrow, “Do Trigger Warnings Help or Hurt Students?” caused me to wonder, what would the Greek philosopher Socrates say on the subject? After all, the Socratic method of teaching has been used effectively...
I was recently interviewed by Evidential Medium, Suzanne Giesemann, on my experience as a caregiver for my wife, Julie. Check it out at https://youtu.be/beWim9m-T5E...
I first realized my wife, Julie, was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s over seven years ago. We had the opportunity to have some discussions about what that would mean for our lives together, and how it would affect us in coming years. ...
Parents have been grappling for years on how soon to give their child a laptop or smart phone, and how much time do they allow them to spend, particularly with online social interaction. The pandemic has forced an avalanche of online learning, which provides...
Photo by Xiao Cui on Unsplash It is possible, today, to place a microchip in your brain to biologically interface with a computer. In August, 2020, Elon Musk demonstrated the ability of one of his many companies, Neuralink, in doing that very thing quite successfully....
Photo by Katrina Wright on Unsplash We know that all the thoughts we have create energy and they are sent out to the universe in a vibrational pattern. Neuroscientists estimate that we have in excess of 60,000 thoughts a day. Our brains...
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Resistance to change is a fruitless endeavor and can be extremely frustrating if we don’t realize that we are sabotaging ourselves when we resist change. Jesse Owens, a record setting Olympic athlete, was once quoted as saying, “To those who...
Photo by JD Mason on Unsplash It is important to recognize that being in a personal relationship with another is one of the greatest gifts we have available to us in learning how to love and be loved. Knowing HOW to be in a relationship is...
Photo by Katie Smith on Unsplash If you have read the previous blog post and can accept the reality that you CAN change your genetic programming, then it is important to start identifying what that is and making new choices in how you think. The...
Photo by Fatema Alaie I am a firm believer that there is always an opportunity being presented in every crisis or challenge that we face. It is the nature of how the universe works. If we can perceive the learning opportunity in any situation,...