Patience is the capacity for waiting—an admirable quality that helps us tolerate the gap between what we have and what we want without becoming upset. The word patience originated from Latin, from pati, which means to endure, bear or suffer. People … [Read more...]
Why People Procrastinate
Years ago a friend of mine was struggling to deal with his son's insistence on procrastinating about seemingly everything that mattered to the father. Putting things off that we can or should do is a situational malady almost all of us experience at … [Read more...]
July 9th
To say I was a reluctant father would be accurate. I have lacked ambition for many things in life, and back in the late 1980s changing a diaper was one of them. I was often quite blunt about it; I boasted to beer buddies that I wanted my headstone to … [Read more...]
Why Larry King Will Be Hard to Replace
Caught in the undertow of CNN's corporate confusion, venerable talk show host Larry King decided this week to step aside. After a record-setting 25 years in the same prime-time slot, King announced on the air Tuesday night that he will end his show … [Read more...]