'Happiness' is a tricky word. This famous Nathaniel Hawthorne quote sums up the attitude of many to that ever-elusive monarch butterfly, happiness: Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight...
American poet, novelist and short story writer, Charles Bukowski (and Elvis Presley of American wild masculine, nakedly gritty, down-and-out, beer-drunk and still shining with true heart literature), dedicated his final completed work, Pulp , to bad writing. Inspired by this, I wrote, Dedicated to Bad...
You’ve probably been made to feel at some point in your life that there is something “wrong” with you for feeling anxious, angry, or sad. I always take the tack that you feel anxious, angry, or sad (very likely) because there is something right with...
I am sure my readers are all aware of the film, The Secret , which came out in 2016 and became a massive cultural phenomenon. For those of you who are not aware or not too familiar, the film introduces and explicates a metaphysical principle,...