Category: Family & Education

How to Spread Random Kindness

Kindness can be contagious. Committing a random act of kindness (RAK) can be as simple as sharing veggies from your garden, complimenting a coworker on an attractive new tie, or praising the manners of a parent’s exceptionally well-behaved child. It might even result in others following your example. Be Gracious at Work RAKs are like…


It’s All in the Details

“I don’t do details. I’m a big-picture kind of person.” The visionaries who make this formula work possess the wisdom to surround themselves with competent subordinates or colleagues, men and women who make the dream come true by focusing on specifics. Whether a CEO in a major corporation or the owner of a small software…


Cultivating a Practice of Love and Kindness

Writer Aldous Huxley once said, “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.” Love can be shown through our actions, our words, our attitudes, our energy, our intentions, and our thoughts. Let’s consider how much love, compassion, kindness, and care we’re offering the people in our lives and beyond. Love is…


Dear Dr. Chloe, My Boyfriend Has Not Followed Through on His Promise to Propose, What Should I Do?

Dear Dr. Chloe, I am a 32-year-old woman who would like to marry and have children with the right man. I met someone special last spring, and after a careful period of dating for six months, we became exclusive with a plan to become engaged by Thanksgiving. However, he never proposed and now becomes defensive…


Desperate Father Excluded From Son’s Life

Dear June, I’m a 79-year-old married male with a grown daughter and son, both in their 50s. Our son married a young woman 25 years ago who brought hostility into our lives. She would often not visit on holidays, would never give us the children’s schedules, and essentially excluded us from their lives. She wouldn’t…


A Heart of Humility Creates Ripples Far and Wide

Merriam-Webster defines humility as “freedom from pride or arrogance”—and humility, it seems, has gone out of fashion. Modern society seems to encourage character traits that fly in the face of humility, such as narcissism, entitlement, and self-centeredness. We’re surrounded by experts and gurus claiming to have all the answers; arguing seems to have become a…


Fathers on Film: Hollywood’s Good Dads

Search online for “young men in trouble,” and you’ll find dozens of articles, many of them quite recent, about a generation of males in crisis. Many young men are floundering nowadays, uncertain of who they are or their purpose in life or what it means to be a man in a culture that has lost…


Reflections on Love

Recently, I saw a great sign outside a church: “Love your neighbor. No exceptions.” Wow, I thought—simple, but spot on. In these divided, polarized times, it’s good to take a step back and reflect on the meaning of love and to think about how well we’re each living it out in our lives. A Journey…


Celebrating Love: A Valentine’s Craft for the Whole Family

What better time of year to show friends and family you love them than on Valentine’s Day? Especially this year! This beautiful Scandinavian craft is something the whole family will enjoy. You will need: Colored construction paper Scissors Your hands Love Before you start, you might want to create a little ambience in your space…


Saviors & Dishwashers: Start With the Dishes and You Can Be Both

That line from satirist P.J. O’Rourke in “All the Trouble in the World” serves as an apt metaphor for the 2022 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where high-ranking government officials and elites gathered to discuss climate change. Thousands of them arrived via high-polluting private jets, prompting an outcry from environmentalists. Here, I suppose,…