Brad Hirschfield 
This video of ESPN's Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V Perseverance Award is about way more than living with cancer - as if that would not be reason enough to watch. You can watch from the beginning, or pick it up at 6:50 when his speech begins, but either way you will be both inspired and enlightened. ...
Irwin Kula 
"Use your words," I remember saying to my children when they wanted to hit or bite during those terrible twos when children don't have the words to adequately communicate their feelings. Well, the words of diplomats and politicians, political scientists and pundits, intelligence and military experts, artists, religious leaders, and peace activists have all failed. We are killing each other rather...
Brad Hirschfield 
From Odyssey Networks' Faith on the Record series: This week, fanatical religion and absolutist atheism lost and the rest of us won. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in the case of Galloway v. Greece, NY that prayer was acceptable in public meetings - a...
Brad Hirschfield 
In addition to this seeming to be my week to reflect on verbal responses to new situations (earlier this week, I wrote about the art of accepting compliments), the whole question of when to say "I'm sorry", and what those words mean, strikes very close to home...
Brad Hirschfield 
Ever make plans with someone, and then all of a sudden they switch things up on you? Of course you have! That's life. Does it bother you? My guess is that even if you are one of those people who pride themselves on your flexibility, if the plans were about something you consider a big deal, even you would find yourself annoyed. But why? ...
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