August 2024

As a butterfly slowly breaks through its chrysalis, it is at the same time developing the strength to fly. If a young child happens to come along just at the right time to witness the final stage of its metamorphosis, they might be inclined to help set the butterfly free. But in doing so, they […]

Don’t talk to strangers (the board game)   There used to be a board game when I was young called ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers.’ With the roll of a die, the winner and loser was determined almost entirely by luck, just like in ‘Snakes and Ladders,’ with just one small variation in which strategy or

One of the first things you do in kindergarten (at least when I was a kid) is sit down at a table shared by other kids and draw a picture. The teacher gives everybody a piece of paper and puts a bunch of crayons in the center of the table, and tells them to draw

In Napoleon Hill’s famous book ‘Think and Grow Rich,’ he devotes an entire chapter to the transmutation of sexual energy, whereby one takes their powerful sexual urges and impulses and transforms them into the pursuit of a goal. Or, as he puts it, the creation of ‘riches.’ But many readers complained that, at least in

Have you ever seen Bill Gates’ house? There are about 154 million things to admire about it, but one small, simple thing that I love is that he has acres of forest surrounding the property, and there is a little creek that meanders through the trees. It looks like the most peaceful place to just

What kind of guy would a woman have been looking for about 10,000 years ago? I’m imagining a big, burly figure that also has an abundance of athletic prowess, such that he can climb a tall tree, leap out of it to ambush attack his prey like a leopard, and then wrestle a 700lb adult