Arrogance: The Expensive Trait… Writing about arrogance is not easy. It’s tricky and it’s finicky. Why? Because arrogance is one of those traits that we recognize easily in others, but in ourselves…well that’s another matter. Ask yourself, when was the…
When Doubt Strikes… Who of us hasn’t been there, hasn’t had a dose of doubt at one time or another? We’ve all been there; we’ve all been struck by that abominable feeling of uncertainty, that feeling of not knowing what…
To Escape to Nature, Is to Escape to Ourselves… Another summer long weekend draws to an end. The roads jammed with city goers as they return to their urban domiciles. They rush home from their cottages, cabins, and tents; they…
Surrender Self-Responsibility, And We Surrender Freedom… There’s a war going on and it’s not the war on terror nor the war on climate change. It’s much more subtle as it isn’t a war of bullets, bombs and grenades, nor is…
Are You Value-Oriented? Value – that most appealing word that we all cherish and seek out. We seek value in the things we buy, in the food we eat, in the walls we live, and in the places we…
Happy 2nd Birthday to The C.A.T. Blog and Thoughts on Writing… Two years ago this week, The C.A.T. Blog came to life with the writing of an inaugural blog named Santa Barbara Days…. A few weeks before commencing this bi-weekly…
A Train Ride to Goslar, a Train Ride to Change… The loudspeaker blared, “Goslar, hier Goslar” as my feet sprung from the train and smacked down upon the railway platform on a trip to this designated UNESCO World Heritage German…
Friendship and a Birthday in Berlin… Friendship is a peculiar thing. Two people meet and they might as well be sitting on opposite ends of the globe. Two others meet and it’s as if they knew each other their entire…
Gratitude: And Why It Matters… Having recently crossed the half-century threshold (see Aging: Reflections on Turning Fifty…), the mind develops a propensity to recall times bygone (at least mine does). People, places and events spring forth from thoughts of remembrance…
Aging: Reflections on Turning Fifty… Fifty! Wow…who would have thought? In short order, yours truly will turn a page of personal history, and vacate my forties to cross into my fifties. Or as one bartender put it: exchange the “young”…