“The answers to our problems don’t lie beyond our reach.  They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.  Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we [...]

I’m fed up with feeling like a victim in this economy. Can you relate? I’m fed up with the roller coaster of emotions and the dire news reports. I’m fed up with worrying about money. I’m fed up with not being able to sleep. But over the past day or two, I’ve turned a corner. [...]

“Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big [...]

By no means am I anything close to a food critic but I do a lot of traveling and a lot of eating so I believe my ranking counts for something. And I’d just like to share what for me is the single greatest example of “comfort-food” in all of the United States. It starts [...]

Despite its terrible financial problems, Iceland was voted home to the world’s happiest people (according to the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index rankings). Iceland?! Where it’s freezing cold and the sun doesn’t make an appearance for months at a time!? “Wow,” I thought when reading this fact. But I soon discovered there are [...]

Do you remember what you did a week ago Tuesday? What about 3 weeks ago Wednesday? Life is becoming a big blur. What good is a day where you answer all your voicemails, and respond to all your emails, and check off all your to-do’s… if you fail to have one moment of pleasure? My [...]

Lately I’ve been jogging to increase my cardiovascular strength and decrease my girth. The little earbud headphones don’t stay in my ears so I jog with the Bose Noise Reducing headphones. Yes they are a bit awkward and I’ve been told that jogging with them gives me a striking resemblance to Warren from the movie [...]

Being that I’m a Arizona Cardinals fan*, I was heartbroken when they lost yesterday’s Super Bowl in the last minute. I moped around the rest of the evening, feeling as I’d been dumped by a girlfriend.  Like so many other rabid sports wondering why they continue to put themselves through the emotional ringer, I’m struggling [...]