My wife and I have been married for 11 years.  That’s not long enough time to be too confident in our success—after all, it’s just a few years longer than the average US marriage of…

A busy day doesn’t have to be a bad day. In fact, many of my busiest days are packed full of activities that I find meaningful and satisfying…

A few months ago after welcoming our fourth baby into our family, I felt that there was an unhealthy habit that I needed to break…

Any description of human behavior should have something to say about the complicated relationship we have with our emotions…

I consider good conversation to be a real contender for life’s greatest pleasure. Unfortunately, the art of carrying on a great conversation is not something that comes naturally to many of us…

In the decade after college there were long seasons where I felt the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be wasn’t shrinking nearly as fast as I wanted…

When we become such creatures of habit, we run the risk of getting stuck in a boring rut, deprived of enjoying new or different experiences. This can even result in feelings of depression, laziness,…

Not all stress is bad for you, in fact, research continues to support the idea that certain kinds of mild stress can be beneficial to your health and well-being in a myriad of complex…

Believing that someone else has it better, or that better days are ahead of us, we strive to pursue greater opportunities or nicer things…

I occasionally reflect on certain periods of my life nostalgically as the “good ol’ days”…

As the timer moved closer to zero, now for the second time, I felt a growing sense of dread…

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life…