Character Counts

Character. We all know what it is.  We’ve heard about all the things that “build character” like eating your peas, cleaning your room, and doing your homework.  But do we really know what character is? Joan Didion wrote “Character –…

Giving Back

Everybody has their own reasons for donating to worthy causes.  Some do it for religious reasons.  Some to make the world a better place. Some to help those less fortunate.  Whatever the reason, it’s good to give back to the…

Nobody Owes Us Squat

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first. ~Mark Twain In the last two generations, more and more people have come to think the United States owes them a…

Brain Power

Like it or not, regardless of any religious upbringing or ingrained political ideas against it, we think about money a lot.  The key is how we think about it. We may think money is dirty or evil, when it is…