The time for gratitude is when nothing is going wrong. If we all practiced being grateful more often, we'd find less cause to complain, less cause to be bitter, less cause to fight with each other over all the problems that aren't as bad as we make them out to be.

Who doesn’t like a good story?

After spending my prodigal youth hitchhiking cross country and circling the globe, living abroad for a decade, and teaching high school for over 20 years, I have a few stories to tell….

Unlike the purely ceremonial royals of today, kings of old were absolute sovereigns. They answered to no one. Their word was law. And they held unchecked power over life and death in their hands…

Is expertise sabotaging your success?

Laurence Gonzales almost had his hand bitten off by an ashtray.

As a child, Mr. Gonzales was fascinated by his grandmother’s ceramic ashtray, which was fashioned in the form of a coiled rattlesnake…

Here we are again, shaking our collective heads the latest harassment headlines. How did this happen? How did we get here? How long are these stories going to continue to surface…?

National Coast Guard Day offers lessons in ethical thinking and visionary leadership…