Finally, 2020 is in the rearview mirror and the almost twelve months of 2021 are in front of us. It’s a great time to stop and do some reflection, assessment, and reorientation. It’s also an ideal time to take aim at some goals for our personal life, work or career,…
True, it’s the title of another one of those romance “songs of the season” as the singer wants to know whether she gets to be the date on New Year’s Eve, or if she’ll be left wondering what the guy’s doing. Nevertheless, isn’t that the frequent question of conversation at…
For some reason, Santa was very late for my fifth Christmas. It’s not that there was too much snow; it seems it was one of those “green Christmases” in north-central Ohio, as I recall. Maybe it was because there wasn’t enough snow? Perhaps it was because I stayed up too…
Maybe it’s just a year of mounting frustration due to everything 2020 has thrown us, from COVID to politics, but the other day I came across a most distressing example of Christmas entitlement and its sad consequence. Three or four times in the past seven years during the Christmas season,…
