If you’re a regular reader of this Journal, you’ve probably been called a “nerd” at least a few times.

And if you’re a real nerd — at least the male type — there’s a good chance that you were beat up one or more times in school.

By a bully. [more...]

I’ve mentioned a few times in the past that, many years ago, I did my Masters thesis on the topic of creativity training.

I administered a small subset of activities taken from a “creativity training” book that was popular at the time, and then compared my “trained” subjects’ subsequent creativity test scores to [more...]

I think that counselors have it right when they say, “You can’t control what happens to you in life — you can only control how you react to it.”

One way to try to keep a positive attitude is to remember that, if you’ve got a place to live, food to eat, and people who love you, then [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that my wife and I have been married more than twice as long as either one of us had been alive before we met.

That’s a lot of being together, and a tremendous amount of love going back and forth.

When you love someone that much, [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that my wife and I have been married a very long time.

In fact, more than twice as long as either of us was alive before we met.

She is my angel, my joy — and very much my better half. [more...]