Below you'll find a list of all posts from November, 2018
I remember it as if it were yesterday. It was Thanksgiving of 2011. I was to be in Alexandria for the holidays but Mom had taken a turn for the worst in Pittsburgh. She had been diagnosed a year earlier with ovarian cancer. And now, here I was in the doctor’s office with the news that hospice services had been ordered …
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein As we approach Thanksgiving this week, it’s a good time to consider the the value of gratitude in your life and the miracle that is your life. As Fred Rogers of Mister …
One of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, Colombia is nestled in the northwest corner of South America. Nearly 70 languages and dialects are spoken in Colombia, many of which are indigenous, ethnic languages that may date back to the first inhabitants of the region around 12,000 BCE. Once a mostly agricultural society, Colombia experienced a large migration …
Over 250 years since the dawn of modern psychology, psychologists have characterized success based on many traits. None have been more focused on than intelligence (IQ)–their ability to think fast or slow. In the 1970s, positive psychology was born as a branch of psychology and a cadre of new scientists began to study not disease of the mind but the …
