All the careful planning in the world can’t compete with sabotage. The farmer had an enemy that, for some reason, wanted his crop to be ruined, or at least bothersome. This enemy comes into the field at night when no one can see him and plants zizanium...

“This is just not worth it.” Maybe you’ve said that as you’ve worked on a project. Perhaps the goal was good and exciting. Maybe you were looking to restore a car, build a complicated grandfather clock...

When we do any sort of marriage counseling, be in before or after a wedding, one of the exercises that I almost always have the couple do is create a list of the relationships in their lives and then from that general list create a top 4 or 5 list, ranking the most important relationship at the top of the list.

If you’ve ever started a new job or can think back to that first day of a new school year, maybe even at a new school, you know the feeling. The feeling of unease: what is happening? Where do I go? What am I supposed to be doing?

There are certain things you just need to keep track of closely. When I travel by air, I’ve got my ID on me at all times.