Money Can't Buy You Love -- But a Recession Just Might
What America needs is a return to the tactile, a grounding in the present, and an emphasis on connection.
Idil, a Somali mother in Minnesota, told me she had been trying for more than a year to get state officials to pay attention to all the sick kids in the local Somali community. She's now "taking off the gloves."
What America needs is a return to the tactile, a grounding in the present, and an emphasis on connection.
Every child's life has equal value and our nation has a responsibility to ensure every child a level playing field, healthy start and fair chance to achieve a successful future.
How to achieve this caloric balance is the hard part. You will need to keep food records and learn the calories and portion sizes of the foods you eat.
This fight is helping gay people, who have never had a role model, strangely understand what commitment is. Do we stand by a partner? What is the bond of love? What is our book of love?
Let the pup socialize with people. Grab an old shirt from Biden so the little tyke gets accustomed to his scent in the Oval Office, and can track him down quickly if the senate needs to break a tie.
Sometimes just talking out a dream enables us to find the nugget of gold in it. Every dream has something creative and useful at its core, and telling the dream helps the dreamer discover it.
I telephoned a girlfriend today for a chat and she hit me with a bombshell. She politely told me that she saw no point in continuing our friendship.
Even though there is a limited amount of money in the world, there is more than enough to exchange what is truly valuable. There is a blessing in learning how to more effectively use a commodity like money when it is in limited supply.
Religion in America has made homosexuality into a false bogeyman, which has seriously distracted religion from giving real values to an increasingly valueless society.
Even if it's not "rational" economically, couples are much more likely to move for the husband's career. The gender logic within families is often more powerful than the economic logic.
Weingarten's speech was an impassioned call to spare the hatchet -- or scalpel -- in federal funding for education.
Obama keeps reminding us that we need to prepare ourselves for making sacrifices in order to correct the excesses of the past. This applies as much to our diet as much as it does to the economy.