Was 2025 a good year for you? Was it challenging? Forgettable … or unforgettable? Something in-between? I’m not going to share details about my 2025––and I don’t expect you to share yours––not because it’s no one else’s business (though it isn’t), but really, I don’t want to burden or bore you. I will say this: like every other year before it, 2025 had some good, some bad and some ugly. Likely no different than yours. This is the time of year we tend to reflect on all that: t

This is from October 2024. Enjoy, and we'll see you back here with new and (maybe) fresh stories and perspectives next week. You may have seen what I'm about to share, but that doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile exercise. It's a "quiz" of sorts, one often attributed to Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip; my all-time favorite). I did a little digging, and it appears as though Schulz did NOT create this. Nonetheless, it seems consistent with his philosophy on li

“Out of life’s school of war, what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” - Fredrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was a noted existentialist and nihilistic, a philosopher who basically boiled his view of life and the world to "Shit happens," something he didn’t coin but certainly could have if he were privy to late 20th century slang and all its trappings. It also made him the guy you probably didn’t want to get stuck talking to at a dinner party. That said, as a philosopher, he said lot