A couple months ago, a friend and I were sitting on my couch. We had brewed tea and I was listening to his heart aches.

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Stories were told. I was there for him because I consider him as a friend and that’s “what friends do.”

We also exchanged a …

Routines are to the psychological self what a skeleton is to the biological body.

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Self-help gurus like to rave about routines. For good reason: for every follower who hasn’t yet found structure, adopting even the slightest form of routine can yield dramatic improvements in one’s quality of life …

The word “growth” does not mean what you think it means.

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There is some kind of fashion in US corporate culture: that to advertise and promote “personal growth” as an instrument to—and sometimes measure of—employee satisfaction.

This is profoundly offensive, disturbing, and ultimately misguided.

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An anecdote: I love …

As I started sharing the burden of having a hoarder parent with my friends, I slowly discovered that my friends have hoarder parents of their own too. In fact, I discovered, surprisingly, that most of my generation’s own parents have hoarding tendencies.

This explains why I noticed an upsurge …

Something Happened! With a capital “S.”

For the first time in forever, a reading caught my attention — by surprise, nonetheless.

In a nutshell, last Sunday afternoon I came across a blog via a repost, indirectly. I read one article, then one thing led to another, and then it was evening …