The word empathy is used a lot. Sometimes it is confused with sympathy, but they are different. When you feel sympathy for somebody those are your feelings, experienced by you. Sympathy involves what you feel when you witness another person’s suffering or terrible misfortune. You may feel ...

As I slowly cruised the lakeshore, a tradition I do before heading to my favorite fishing spot on the lake, this past week, I was startled to see the lone hardwood tree, already dappled in orange and yellow leaves. Just the one tree. There wasn’t another tree around the entire lake that was ...

August is National Wellness Month, a time to focus on self-care, stress management, and building healthy habits that support overall well-being. In our busy lives, it’s easy to put ourselves last, but caring for our physical, mental, and emotional health is essential—not a luxury. Even ...

The blue Helldiver — a WW II single-engine dive bomber — was taxiing placidly down the runway when its wing abruptly dipped. The airplane came to a halt at an unsettling angle. Its right wheel had strayed off the paved runway and onto its border, which had been turned into mush by a lengthy ...

It’s been a summer. Not a particularly warm or stable one, but it’s been a summer, and that means in these northern latitudes that the season is perhaps the most fleeting of the four we receive in a given year. Sure, by writing about it and turning these thoughts into the reality of black ...

It’s always a bit unsettling when you notice something is empty, right? Or is it an opportunity for further enrichment? Back in the day when I was attending college in Lafayette, Louisiana, we planned a road adventure to see the Grand Canyon. Not familiar with the desert southwest, I ...