To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson … [Read more...]

"Men are respectable only as they respect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson … [Read more...]

Tony Alessandra, Ph.D. When I was in high school back in 1960's, everyone always divided themselves into self-contained, often exclusive, groups. These groups followed all the old clichés -- you had your greasers, your jocks, your nerds, your college prep kids, and your vocational kids -- and everyone was always careful to stay within their own group. Although I was technically in the athletic group (or jocks) and the college prep group, I always tried to go out of my way to get along with … [Read more...]