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Competition versus Cooperation
Transform Your Stress into an Ally
Stress is misunderstood by almost everyone. The main reason people have trouble managing, let alone eliminating stress in their lives is that they don’t really understand what it is and where it comes from. To make matters worse–actually, far worse–the supposed experts give them advice that, while it may in…
The Gift
For the Love of Music
2016: A Year of Political Insanity—or is it?
It is a year of unprecedented extremes in the climate of presidential politics. It is a year of terrorist attacks around the world, most inflicted by Muslims upon other Muslims. It is a year that has left humanity groping for answers to the perennial question: “Why?” Satisfying answers, however, are…
Soldier of Misfortune
In July of 1966 the Viet Nam war was just warming up the bloodmobile, Lyndon Johnson was president, Kent State was just a school no one ever heard of, and Detroit was not a good place to be black. Jerry Burnett knew that better than most of us. I didn’t…