I Can Reach Any Star: The Beautiful Philosophy of Star Trek: Enterprise
We’re going to stumble, make mistakes, I’m sure more than a few before we find our footing, but we’re going to learn from those mistakes. That’s what being human is...
Freak Out with Tom Papa
Are you ready for intelligent, benevolent comedy? Let me introduce you to Freaked Out with Tom Papa. So much comedy is cynical or mean spirited or just not funny. This...
Helen Keller’s Five Keys to Being Happy
Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. —Helen Keller. In 1882, when Helen Keller was nineteen months old, an illness left her blind, deaf, and...
Ira Glass on Closing the Ideal-Actual Gap in the Creative Process
Several years ago, while procrastinating in graduate school, I discovered a short video clip that helped me at the time—and has now helped me again. The clip, posted below, is...
Eleanor Roosevelt on Being an Individual(ist)
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. What is an individual? The Cambridge Dictionary gives...
Freddie Mercury’s Smiling in Heaven
The sight of an achievement [is] the greatest gift that a human being could offer to others. —Ayn Rand. This week for Soul-Fuel Friday, I’d like to share three powerful performances...
Defining a Future to Fight For
Craig and I have just begun our first two (sold out!) sessions of the OSI course “How to Write Powerfully in Defense of Liberty,” and there’s a point that’s come...
Secrets of Effective Time Management: Rolling with the Punches
Author’s note: The “five Ds” is an idea that’s been around for some time; here’s my take on it. I run two businesses, one of which sometimes has employees I...
Gardens Simultaneously Calm and Reinvigorate
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Like an Arrow Shot From a Bow: Poems about the Power of Words
A collection of poetry that has helped me positively develop as a person is The Best Loved Poems of the American People, selected by Hazel Felleman. I found my copy on...
Music for Freedom: Ennio Morricone’s “Run Man Run”
When I was young, my father introduced me to many Western films. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, movies such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, My Name...
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