by Mark Edge | Mar 18, 2023 | Emotional Health
Last week I spoke to members of the Better Business Bureau. I don’t know if anything I said made an impression, but I do know that something someone else wrote did. Back in the nineties, a newspaper writer included many sad and disturbing items about what was...
by Mark Edge | Mar 10, 2023 | Emotional Health
Many years ago, a lady wrote in Readers’ Digest about an act she did to demonstrate her gratitude. She lived in Chicago, and her city was suffering from a heat wave. Newspapers wrote that Chicago’s workers were in danger of dehydration. This woman decided...
by Mark Edge | Nov 10, 2022 | Emotional Health
I have long been interested in courtroom trials. That’s why I enjoyed an article I read several years ago about humor in the courtroom. The following is the dialogue from various trials preserved in the courtroom by court reporters. They are found in the...
by Mark Edge | Oct 19, 2022 | Emotional Health
Dick Schapp was a great journalist during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. He was based in New York City and was in heavy demand as a speaker. One night in the 1960s, he gave a speech at Syracuse, New York, which lay north of New York City. Afterward, he took a 12 AM bus...
by Mark Edge | Jul 27, 2022 | Emotional Health
What determines happiness? Who is happy? In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize winner for economics, Daniel Kahneman, answered these two questions. His findings were fascinating. For example, researchers measured the happiness of people who had lived in...
by Mark Edge | Jul 21, 2022 | Emotional Health, Physical Health
Lewis Mumford and Neil Postman have written about time, the clock, time management, and our lives. I have an old colleague who was traveling with his family in another country. Let’s call my friend Rick. Rick and his family were at the airport waiting to board a...
