When last have you gone to bed tired, really enjoyed a peaceful sleep, punctuated with some very welcome dreams, only to wake up the next morning, one hour after your alarm was set to go off? You take one glance at the clock on the wall or on your phone… and you instantly realize you will be late for work, for that all important appointment, or your flight on a…

“Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all Small Stuff” is the name of a best-seller written by Richard Carlson in 1996. I like it.  Big and small are relative terms.. Lifting 50 lbs might be a big deal for some weak people… but is a very small matter for a body builder. And yet, the flu virus attacks the weak man and the body-builder alike, and knocks them both…

Are you guilty of sabotaging America’s great democracy?  Now, wait a minute… do not be too quick to answer? Remember the time  your mother caught you in the cookie jar, and even while two or three cookies were still puffing out your mouth… in response to her question, “who ate the cookies?”,   your punctuated answer was… “Not me mommy!” Of course that never happened to you… but it sure did…