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Note: Today I am proud to present to you a guest editorial by my friend and colleague Heather Wagenhals. An […]

Kindness is a powerful force. I’ve known that for some time, and the older, and hopefully wiser, I get, the more I realize it. And apparently, I’m not the only one. A few days ago, I read a story about how people underestimate the positive impacts of random acts of kindness. This story covered a […]

Have you ever noticed that childhood memories come about in all sorts of seemingly unconnected ways? Perhaps it’s just the way human memory functions, which […]

If you’ve tuned in to TV news anytime over the past six days, you’ve been inundated with coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Indeed, the mostly fawning treatment of the Queen’s […]

There was a cat sleeping on my porch She didn’t know what I had witnessed The lacerated skyline of metropolis A bleeding out of her twin sons Flying lancets piercing steel hulls Black smoke seasoning the azure sky As the falling man descends to the concrete Incendiary ideas born in Bronze To please a prophet […]

I’ve noticed a growing trend in the alternative media and podcast world where authors are doing a segment called, “Ask Me Anything.” This is where the author responds to reader inquiries about […]

Haters gonna hate. That’s a little youthful slang for the notion that, no matter how successful, accomplished or good someone is, there are always going to be those “haters” out there that want to denigrate their achievement. Sadly, I […]

This week marks a personal milestone for me, as the podcast and lifestyle website I created, “Way of the Renaissance Man,” […]

Almost one year ago to the day, the lead story in this publication was titled, “Molecules From the Healing Gods.” That story was, and still is, very […]

“Don’t mess with Norco.” That was a headline of a story on my local Southern California news website KTLA, as it described one reaction to video of liquor […]