sunday firesides

1 min read 2021-02-07 11:17:51

Sunday Firesides: Your Worst Competitor Is You

“You should only compete with yourself.” “Just try to be your own very best.” In a time when competing with others has come to be frowned

1 min read 2021-01-31 10:50:21

We often use the words “nice” and “kind” synonymously. But it can be helpful to distinguish between the two qualities, as Eric Kapitulik,

1 min read 2021-01-24 10:02:56

In 1934, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd spent almost five months living entirely alone in a tiny shack buried under the ice of Antarctica’s

1 min read 2021-01-17 09:51:31

When a tragedy — a serious accident, an unexpected death — befalls someone, friends and family quickly spring into action. Emergency room

1 min read 2021-01-10 10:09:33

A question that has been oft contemplated and discussed, is why it is that Scandinavian countries routinely report some of the highest happiness

1 min read 2020-12-20 09:51:56

When asked if they are religious, many people today will say they’re not (often adding that they are, nevertheless, spiritual). This distinctly

1 min read 2020-12-13 09:33:17

Over his lifetime, Winston Churchill penned a voluminous amount of correspondence, and commonly signed these missives with “Yours Sincerely.”

1 min read 2020-12-06 10:26:37

In a famous story shared by the writer Anne Lamott, she remembers a time from her childhood in which her brother had procrastinated working on a

1 min read 2020-11-29 10:56:12

The first few dozen times you listen to a killer new album, the experience is nigh near euphoric. The songs just seem to get better and better with

1 min read 2020-11-15 12:16:07

As you grow older, your body grows stiffer. It gets harder to bend, to stretch, to contort yourself into “unusual” positions — unusual in that

1 min read 2020-11-01 09:24:22

Before there was politics, there was sex and love, games and sports, spirituality and art, glory and honor. As civilization became increasingly

1 min read 2020-10-25 08:39:04

When a young C.S. Lewis would gaze out the windows of his nursery, the landscape of green hills in the distance would fill him with pangs of

1 min read 2020-10-17 02:30:57

Everyone hopes to find good mentors in life — folks who shape your character, point you down positive paths, and model new possibilities for

1 min read 2020-10-11 08:17:13

“I want to be liked. I want to be loved. I want to be recognized. I want to be a success. I want to win. I want a happy resolution.” “It

1 min read 2020-10-04 12:20:46

During WWII, it could take a soldier two weeks to get home, with days spent slowly traveling by ship across the Atlantic and by train through the