When I was six year's old I tried to count all the stars in the night sky. The challenge overwhelmed me rather quickly but the memory of that night lingers, still filling me with a sense of wonder. It began as a game that my mother suggested for my sister and me. Mom laid a blanket down over a soft patch of clover in our back yard and started the game by asking us to see if we could find the first star to appear as the sun was setting in that wide northern Oklahoma sky. Soon

Can you really become a person who is wiser by cultivating the virtue of wisdom? How about becoming a more forgiving person? More grateful,

Each new year seems to begin with a flurry of resolutions, most of which will be abandoned by the end of the month. Why? Because they require that we make changes and we resist change more than almost anything else. On the other hand, change is an irresistible force. You'll probably agree that there is no growth without change, so we might as well embrace it and do our best to shape it to our advantage. Alan Deutschman, author of an excellent book titled Change or Die, wri