There are some brands that put out one or two holiday products and call it a day, and then there are others that put out so many you can barely even remember them all. I get super-excited every year... Read more >>

During the cold months, maintaining the moisture balance in my skin can be quite a task. I struggle with keeping smooth skin on my face, so I exfoliate often to remove the dry patches that pop up all... Read more >>

Part Two of a two part exercise that began with considering that “You’re not that important.” “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a... Read more >>

This is a true story and so as not to try to influence anyone regarding the why or how of it, I will tell the story just as it happened. I had been on sick leave from work and so to fight my... Read more >>

Recent email to our oldest daughter, a report from the home front … Your uncle loves his new computer and is having a ball—at least so far—trying to figure out how to send email.... Read more >>

A Letter from Philosopher Yamamoto Tsunetomo to a pupil … “The faults of a superior person are like the sun and the moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change... Read more >>

It is the expression of a particular philosophy for living and it translates to suggest that: “I am because you are.” It is Ubuntu. Much more than a word, Ubuntu is in fact for many, an... Read more >>

Human existence spread its ancestral creed of philosophies significant to the primordial core’s radical metamorphosis of evolutionary dogma dictating messianic desiderata that captains... Read more >>

This time of the year, there’s nothing I like more than pumpkin-scented products. This doesn’t even apply just to makeup, because I’m also powerless to resist the pumpkin scones or... Read more >>

What is the ultimate value of an individual person? How are we to gauge it, assuming it can even be gauged? But we all have our methods, don’t we. Perhaps we judge by relative surroundings.... Read more >>