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Why Dual Career Couples Face Challenges

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Dual career couples outnumber sole income providers in current family structures. This is especially true in work corridors such as the West Coast, New York, Baltimore-Washington, Chicago, and Denver. While the pursuit of wealth is good, dual careers restrict mobility. Roughly 600,000 annual corporate relocations involve dual-career couples, many of which are necessary uprootings triggered […]

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How to Develop Patience & Why It Matters

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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 these days don’t study dead languages like Latin; they’re too busy and don’t have […]

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Why People Procrastinate

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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 one time or another. There are five reasons for procrastination. Here they […]

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How to Get Closure

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Ah, the dictionary’s most dreaded seven-letter word, defined thusly: “noun. A permanent end of business. Barring of access. A sense of finality.” Real life’s definition is never so simple. Real life defines closure as something we do to others before they do it to us, on a full sprint en route to running and hiding. […]

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The Psychology of Progress: “Throw Down the Bones!”

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One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received in the last few years came from Steve Moore, the great cartoonist who draws the daily sports panel “In the Bleachers.” If you aren’t familiar with his work, make sure to visit gocomics.com/inthebleachers and take a look. Day in, day out Moore is as good as […]

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Footprints or Buttprints

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I am a boomer, the second of four children, produced the impulsive New Year’s revelry of tipsy parents. My brother, two sisters, and I remain close. Our parents are long gone but childhood memories are warm. The teen years, well, they’re fodder for another column. I was an awestruck, seventh-grade towhead when I flew on […]

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