There are toxic people in every environment – toxic family, toxic friends, toxic lovers and toxic coworkers.  If you don’t recognize and respond effectively to toxic, bullying coworkers they can make your life miserable, harass you, turn the rest of your team against you, scapegoat you and even get you fired.
For example, Jane is known […]

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The President’s State of the Union (SoU) address last week had a little something for everyone, contradictory policies, and not enough in any single area to make a difference in the economy.
First, there was something for everyone.  Bank bailouts are suddenly distasteful and the taxpayers need recompense for saving them; the […]

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Black Catholic Americans…great contributions to our faith.

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is always a favorite destination for Catholics and other visitors to New York City. Most of the time, people spend their time in prayer and admiration of the various works of art that adorn the ornate Gothic Cathedral. Catholic are familiar with the tradition that […]

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This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
Nearly two weeks ago, undercover officers arrested five people in Putnam County for trafficking controlled prescription medications. Most notably among the five are Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 6-year-old Satsuma girl HaLeigh Cummings, and his ex-wife Misty Croslin.
Three others arrested in the sting are Misty’s brother Tommy […]

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One could argue that secular colleges undermine religious faith, but per the studies on which this article reports, Catholic students in Catholic colleges are largely similarly affected by higher education.
As one who has been saddened by the failure of the Catholic Church to reform itself, honest reporting will hopefully shake loose […]

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Or so a large recent survey seems to show
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A.
By Andrew J. Oswald and Stephen Wu
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals’ subjective well-being. These are responses to questions—asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel—such as, “How happy […]

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 By Shimon Z. Klein
The siege on Gaza continues. Gaza has become an overcrowded prison - a boiling pressure cooker on the verge of exploding. Gaza is choked by Israel and now by Egypt as well. There is an element of “collective punishment” while many innocent Gaza Palestinians are living in severe poverty and in squalor […]

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When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use my son’s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen […]

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