Time and Chance

You can rage yourself into exhaustion or whisper a warning, but the performance you can expect will always depend on the standards you enforce.

There is a decaying, deadening shallowness that seeps in during all this waiting. There is always something else coming. From year to year and…

Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.

If we’re honest, most of us are tormented by the fear that, “If I don’t publicize who I am, no one will know, and…

A fool will fail to grasp social complexities or care about anyone’s feelings except her own. You will find yourself stirring up a storm…

It’s going to get awkward if you assume your neighbor is burying a body when he’s preparing to plant some geraniums.

God pays special regard to life’s “losers.”

An authority figure who enforces discipline helps people connect the dots between bad choices and negative consequences.

My mom used to bake Christmas cookies for our bus driver. Was that a bribe? If so, he might have hoped for better, despite…

Their concept of self appears larger, not smaller, in that they can’t be bothered…to be bothered.