A cautionary caveat before I go any further: how a person deals with loss and suffering is deeply personal. It is up to that person alone to decide what, if anything, they’ll do with their own loss. …

I’m a worrier. When I was young, anxiety set in anytime my parents were gone for even a minute longer than they said. The later they got home, the more I worried. As I got older, I worried less about when my parents would get home and more about what…

What’s the first thing you do in the morning? Grab you phone and scroll through social media? Read the news, maybe? Are your thoughts throughout the day mostly fleeting? How often do you think deeply about something? Before the advent of modern technology, we all had to rely on the…

“Oh say, what is truth? ’Tis the fairest gem.” Those are words penned by John Jaques in the last 1800s. “Go search in the depths where it glittering lies, or ascend in pursuit to the loftiest skies: ’Tis an aim for the noblest desire.” What is truth? To answer that question, you might…

How many times a day do you go to the internet to search for a particular piece of information? How often do you think — as you search — that you “should probably know this?” How often do you forget within a day or two that bit of information you…

When I was 9, I loved animals and was sure I would be a zoologist. At 13, I knew I would be a geneticist. By 18, a mechanical engineer (which is what I got my degree in). I’ve never been a zoologist, geneticist, or even a mechanical engineer. For many…

“Don’t throw rocks over the edge.” We were camping high up on a ridge with several switchbacks to the parking lot below. I was with my grandfather. My brother and I had been throwing rocks at the mountainside. Those were his parting words to me before he stepped out of…

The self-help industry will generate around $12.5 billion in revenue in 2022. The number of unique ISBNs for self-help books has soared to more than 87,000. There are 446 total words prefixed with self- in English; from self-abandoned to self-worth and everything in between. Self is very in right now. …

How would you react if your partner or best friend told you that they only had a few weeks to live? Imagine that they tell you the story of going to the doctor for a routine check-up, and that the doctor found something in their bloodwork. What would your emotions…