CHARLES DICKENS

• People homeschooling their children are expressing new appreciation for teachers’ day-to-day.
• Garbage collectors and delivery people are receiving proper thank-yous for usually thankless services.
• Health care providers risking their own health for the sake of others are n...

Stoic philosopher Epictetus wrote, "Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness."

This is very telling even in our age about our attention and the things we focus on. We let other people decide what to fo...

There seems to be, for most of us, a certain journey, that we follow throughout our life: the call of adventure is the first part, followed by the ordeal and ending with the victory.

However, after the so-called victory-which, of course, implies the individual being successful - there doe...