Lazaro Cardenas Street in Mexico City is the unofficial dividing line that separates the Historic Center from the expansive, more modern part of the most populous metropolitan area in the Americas. If you walk just to the west of Lazaro Cardenas, you soon arrive in...
Stay in the moment, visualize, don’t dwell on past failure or on letting your team down if you screw up again, remember what you did when you were doing well, accentuate the positive, cast out the negative, believe in yourself, breathe deeply. There needs to...
It’s been said, at least by women, that the world would be better off were it directed by women. However, there is precious little evidence to support such an assumption. Our dot on the universe contains as many graceless and selfish examples of the fairer...
Once in a long while comes a hockey player whose skill and grace touch a level of distinction that reaches for lore. It is as if he was born on the bench, his father, once more unto the breach with that first pair of skates....
I was wandering aimless in a Mexican crowd recently when I saw a truck with a loud ad for a just released KFC product. Beneath the enticing photo of a burger, were the words, ‘To eat well is a blessing.’ Leaving aside whether any burger...
Legend has it that somewhere between 10 BCE and the year 0 CE, a child was born to a girl named Mary, the young wife of Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth. Joseph, however, was not the sire of the boy whom the world would come...
In putting on his recent God and pony-up show in the Washington Mall, Glenn Beck chose his venue wisely. Anything smaller and there might not have been enough room to hold all the stupidity.As gathering and lathering goes, this one might have appeared innocuous. God-fearing...
It’s over then. As empires go, this one didn’t last long. The ending came not in one defining moment, perhaps it hasn’t even dawned on many, but it’s finished; done-in not by Al Qaeda or totalitarianism or other external threats, but by its own stupidity...
From the 14th through the 16th centuries, the City of Florence Italy was the epicenter of what became known as the Italian Renaissance. It was a time of reaching back to banished thinking, of great works of art and architecture, when the talent of Michelangelo...
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” “What must be done ultimately should be done immediately.” Thus spake two of history’s most infamous murderers, Macbeth and Henry Kissinger. Macbeth was contemplating the regicide of Duncan, his Scottish king....