Connective Visions

An inflexible mind is rather worse than an inflexible body, even if both have their pitfalls.

Our resistance to positive suggestions and solutions – in world conflict and in our personal lives – undergoes some examination.

Shifting the holiday focus from sales to relationships can provide both social and economic benefits.

The twilight time of Halloween/All Saints’ corresponds all too well with the 2010 U.S. elections.

It’s not just vacation – it’s getting out of the country.

Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.

The Easter weekend in Norway is a national holiday, running from Thursday through Monday, over which time even supermarkets close. It came to an end yesterday evening, so the traffic warnings had hit the news headlines Sunday night. Adult citizens

Philadelphia has just completed a gorgeous, 70-degree F week (that’s in the 20s C, for all you civilized souls who use the metric system)* as the city entered springtime – and corresponding with the emergence of people from their homes were two blogs

This weekend, I had two occasions to encounter the topic of envy. When that much envy surfaces, it seems time to give it another look – especially when both episodes have, for me, a component of delight, which is not the noticeable offspring of envy.