How can you bounce back from challenges? — By Edie Weinstein In August of 2015, I took part in a wonderful live story telling event sponsored by The Good Men Project. My tale, woven from memory and love was called Meet You at the Gate. It was about my many decades journey back and forth between Philly and…

Asia contains 55 countries, of which 49 are UN members, 1 is an observer, and four are nonmembers. — By Michael Sutherland Asia is the world’s largest continent, covering 44,579,000 sq km/17,212,000 sq mi, about 30% of the world’s land area (8.7% of the globe’s surface), and holding 4.7 billion people, about 59% of the world’s total population. It contains the world’s largest country by area, Russia, and its…

“I’ve had more than a thousand men cry and be vulnerable with me.” — By Jed Diamond Ph.D There’s an old saying that we teach what we want to learn. I’ve been a marriage and family counselor since 1968. I was twenty-five years old then, had just received my master’s degree in Social Welfare, and my wife and I had been married exactly two…

The ever evolving terminology of DEI. — By Julie Kratz The ever evolving terminology of DEI Derald Wing Sue, a psychologist, brought the term “microaggressions” — coined in the 1970s by Harvard University professor Chester Pierce to describe the subtle, everyday ways that people of color experience non-inclusive behavior. As Ruchika Tulshyan states in their article We Need to Retire the Term “Microaggressions”:

The Arab Spring was a series of protests, riots and armed uprisings throughout the Arab world which began in Tunisia in December 2010, and spread east across North Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, lasting until December 2012. — By Michael Sutherland The Arab Spring was a series of protests, riots and armed uprisings throughout the Arab world which began in Tunisia in December 2010, and spread east across North Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula, lasting until December 2012. …

We’ve been through this before and have come out stronger. We will do it again. — By James W. Gaynor Covid and its variants have yet to disappear, and now Monkeypox — a new outbreak of a virus that can be transmitted during sex — makes its dramatic entrance. And if that wasn’t bad enough, its first concentration is in the M2M demographic. Sound familiar? According…

Why completing creative work is so darn hard. — By Eric Maisel I’ve been working with creative and performing artists as, first, a therapist, and then for the last thirty-five years as a creativity coach. I’ve learned from my clients just how hard they find completing their creative work. Many creatives have trouble getting started; many have trouble working…

But you can celebrate it every day. — By Edie Weinstein I just discovered that August is Happiness Happens Month. It came to be when the group called Happiness Happens was formed as an extension of the Secret Society of Happy People founded by Pamela Gail Johnson in August 1998. …

How she knew, I’ll never know. All that matters is she knew. The rest, as they say, is history. — By Andrew Butters