According to recent published research, loneliness is increasing. Despite technology’s instant access to everyone everywhere, researchers have identified three periods of adulthood when moderate-to-severe feelings of loneliness tend to spike: Our late-twenties. Our mid-fifties. Our late-eighties. One of the big surprises researchers discovered is that three-fourths of all study participants reported moderate-to-high levels of loneliness. […]

In 2007  the global recession toppled dominoes around the world. Around the world we shared a common enemy, which was economic instability. Flash forward a decade: Today  global angst looks like a life-sized Lego puzzle. Divisiveness rules,  mistrust abounds, and conclusion-jumping has leap-frogged a long assumed, more traditional respect for measured, fact-based, contemplative thought. What’s […]