Category: life

The Basic Anxiety of Life

Face it in small doses, just for a minute, just for a moment. Then let yourself run.


Don’t We All?

One day, a few years ago, after a hard day’s work, I had taken the family car to the car wash and had gone to pick up my wife from work. I was sitting in the car with the window rolled down when I saw, coming across the parking lot, what society would consider a…


Heroic Dog Saves Mom’s Life After She Was Attacked With a Knife by Strangers on the Street

A mom of one from England is crediting her heroic dog for saving her life when two strangers attacked her by holding a knife up to her throat. Amy Edmondson, 30, said her pitbull-mix, Star, who normally doesn’t even hurt a fly, leaped to her defense during the terrifying ordeal. The Essex resident was returning…


Living Without Regrets: Q&A With Dr. Harley A. Rotbart

Dr. Harley A. Rotbart sees life from a unique perspective. As a physician, heart surgery patient, and child of a Holocaust survivor, he understands that life is precious and fleeting. He has written two books aiming to help people stamp out regrets: “No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years Into Cherished Moments With…


Teen Saves the Life of Woman, 89, Upon Noticing She Hadn’t Collected Her Papers For 3 Days

An alert 15-year-old boy has been hailed a hero for saving the life of an 89-year-old woman after he noticed that she hadn’t collected her papers for three days. Liam Apps was completing his paper round before school when he noticed papers from the last three days were still stacked at the elderly woman’s doormat. Worried, the…


Prosecutors Seek Life Term for Would-Be NYC Suicide Bomber

NEW YORK—A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of ISIS terrorist group, prosecutors said Thursday. In papers filed in federal court in Manhattan,…


One Decision That Can Transform Your Family

If you’re a parent, you probably know the experience of telling your child to do something and getting no response—over, and over, and over. You might become frustrated and raise your voice, at which point your family might accuse you of being a nag, or just plain crazy. Or perhaps you’ve tried to organize a vacation…


Heroic Rescue Dog Saves New Owner’s Life by Dragging Him After He Suffered From a Stroke

When a man from New Jersey rescued a German shepherd from a shelter, little did he know the canine he gave a second chance at life to would return the favor by helping save his life one day. On Jan. 16, 2021, Brian Myers, 59, suffered from a stroke and collapsed on the floor of…


‘What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity:’ Embracing the Arena

“Nothing in life,” Winston Churchill once wrote, “is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Though I’m a Churchill fan, and though no one’s ever shot at me with or without result, here I must disagree with him. Falling in love, and having that person love you, is surely exhilarating. An inheritance of…


It Starts With the Basics: The Formula for the Best of Lives

F. Washington Jarvis (1939–2018) was an Episcopalian priest who for 30 years served as the headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continued existence in North America. Jarvis frequently delivered inspirational talks to the boys in his school, and 40 of these addresses were collected in “With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster…