When Will We Be Able to Say, without Getting Ridiculed, that We Want to Stay Single?
Do most singles want to become unsingle? That’s the question I asked recently over at my personal blog. As I argued in Chapter 4 of Singled Out, I think it is a myth that what single people want, more than anything else, is to become unsingle. In my post, I reprinted this excerpt, from… Continue reading
Dexter the Amiable Serial Killer: PT Bloggers and Other Experts Show their Love
Do you know about Dexter the lovable serial killer? The first time I watched an episode, I could not believe what I just experienced. I was rooting for a killer! How did that happen? Psychologically, the show is just amazing on so many levels. So I could not believe my good fortune when I was… Continue reading
Overcoming Dental Fear
When my sister and I were very young, we went to a dentist that had the bedside manner of an injured wildebeest. Although I didn’t like him and was glad when we finally switched to another provider, I came away from the experience relatively unscathed. My sister, on the other hand, counts it as one… Continue reading
Rabbi Shmuley Reflects on the Broken American Male
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Laura Smith interviews Rabbi Shmuley, best-selling author and star of the award-winning national TV show, Shalom in the Home, which airs on TLC.
Travel to Create Your Self
Ever let the fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home… Open wide the mind‘s cage-door, She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar. - John Keats
Most kids visit their grandparents by car. Not me. Mine lived on Puget Sound and to see them my mother, baby brother, and I (at age five, and on a… Continue reading
Research: Lose The Weight, Save Your Brain?
I just read this somewhat shocking report on obesity: researchers have found that people who are overweight and obese are actually losing brain tissue and have brains that are aged prematurely!
“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their healthy counterparts while [those of] overweight people looked 8 years older,” says UCLA… Continue reading
Why Do More Women Than Men Still Believe in God?
Last week, a new study confirmed something essential about women, something that refuses to budge, even though many say it’s long past time. Professors at Trinity College in Connecticut analyzed the numbers of Americans unaffiliated to any religion. While the number of male nonbelievers was rocketing, the overall totals were slowed by women hitching… Continue reading
How To Get What You Want
One of the biggest excuses why people don’t set goals is they’re not sold on the idea. Zig will sell you, fast! And convince you that goal-setting is the single most important step you can take on your new road to success.
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