D. RANDALL FARO

A common comment by retired people is that “I’m busier now than I was when working full time.” Part of this experience might be that with...

In 1986 Paul Newman and Tom Cruise starred in the movie, “The Color of Money." Enter H.D. Thoreau, who wrote Walden in the mid-19th...

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest...

Competition or cooperation. Which creates discord and disharmony and which fosters peace and well-being? The answer should be obvious but...

Recently I crossed the Pacific Ocean twice coming and going to Nepal. This occasioned observing hundreds (probably more like thousands)...

An important task of an author is to check and double-check. That statement could apply to many aspects of the writing task, but the...

If you like to read history in general, American history in particular, and WWII history specifically, The First Heroes by Craig Nelson...

What is right and what is wrong? Well, it depends on who you ask. This question has been explored and debated from Sophists to Stoics to...

Vice News reported on 15 May 2018: “The 10 richest people in the world are worth a combined $682 billion, or about 35 percent of the...

In my profession over forty years I occasionally worked with individuals seeking counsel for relationship problems. Most often the...

It behooves writers to check, double-check, and triple-check that one’s words say what one means. And/or that what one means to say makes...

Do you ever wonder what the world’s coming to? Of course we do. But now and then one comes upon something necessarily filed between...

The only race. The seemingly inborn desired to be considered a superior race is based on a glaring fallacy. Physical anthropologists...

“1952 Mickey Mantle Rookie Card Sells for $2.88M” . . . a headline on one of today’s newsfeeds. That’s $2,880,000 and no sense. In one...

Several days ago in my post, “Yes, You Did,” I commented on making commitments with eyes wide open and remaining true to accepted...

Sometimes one might think – and at times speak aloud – “I didn’t sign up for this.” Most often the appropriate response is: “Yes, you...

There are a lot of interesting but relatively inconsequential questions. For instance: - If you try to fail and succeed, is it failure or...

Rose Namajunas is an MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) champion. Not everybody likes, or even approves of, MMA. That’s not the point. The point is...

Surf the World Wide Web for why authors write and you’ll find a plethora of responses which range all over the literary map. For...

A recent article in a magazine to which I’ve subscribed for forty years included this conversation: “When my barber asked me if I...