No Depression

Would it be so bad if we had another depression? It’s one of those taboo utterances that will get you in trouble at a dinner party as everyone is inwardly fretting over their stock market losses and portfolios gone bad. I don’t have much of a portfolio...

Teach The Children Well

Tonight I experienced the frustration of watching a child rush through a homework lesson haphazardly without care being taken for accuracy, and instead the focus being only on getting through with it. I felt myself becoming angry with my daughter as she scribbled down...

Enough

Enough is a beautiful concept.  I see it as a crossroads, a place where so many issues come together and enjoy the harmony of each other’s company before sadly being driven on by ambition.  Enough, believe it or not, is  a place where you can settle down and...

Bohemians In Our Midst

Why do most of us find it so hard to have a life so easy? We imagine turning up the volume on the things about life that we truly love, and conversely because an object cannot occupy two separate places at the same time, turning way down the volume on the things about...

Fallacy of Work-Play Opposition

There is, for many of us myself included, a balance sheet between time spent working and time off. It might seem ridiculous to analyze this difference too much. The assumed task at hand seems obvious; decrease the time spent at work and increase the time off for...

Money

Perhaps in this new century more than ever, a person can be truly practicing art by simply placing his focus on living creatively. I read The Rise of The Creative Class and began looking for exactly who Florida was talking about. Who is the Creative Class? Is it the...