Table Manners: How to Behave in the Modern World and Why Bother

For every young person, woman and man, world traveler or homebody, who needs brushing up on their manners, this is the perfect gift. This...

The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Harry Potter is often described as a philosophical treatise disguised as a children’s book. I couldn't agree more. The author, J.K Rowling, gave this...

Read My Mind: Do You Ever Really Know What Someone Else is Thinking?

I love this speech and cannot resist sharing it with you. It is the remarks that Joe Biden gave to the graduating class at Yale in...

What is the World’s Most Wanted Painting?

Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? Monet’s Water Lilies?  Munch’s The Scream? Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring? It turns out none of the above.  Two digital...

The Things that Matter

The comedian George Carlin once said, A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. Nate Berkus...

Learning Resilience from a Master

The last ten years of Henri Matisse’s were far from what most of us would think of as joyful. His marriage was over, he...