When a ship carrying British soldiers arrived in New Haven, Connecticut in July 1779, Yale president Ezra Stiles watched it for a while and wondered what it meant. As the soldiers started to disembark and head toward New Haven, Stiles…
Every year in grade school, Valentine's Day filled me with a particular dread. Like Charlie Brown waiting at the mailbox, I worried: Would I get enough cards? Would anyone forget me? Would the popular kids get more than me? Would…
At age 70, James Hillman, author and founder of archetypal psychology, finally got his Leo moment in the spotlight. Oprah Winfrey invited him on her show to discuss The Soul's Code. Her excitement was palpable–her copy of the book was…
"Unfulfilled desires prove the existence of heaven," thundered the campus Lutheran pastor at the beginning of a sermon decades ago. Out of all the sermons I heard during the first half of my life, this is the only sentence that…
When I was a child I loved going to the stationery store (it was literally called The Stationery Store) in my small hometown. It was a classic Main Street business where one could buy school supplies (Trapper Keeper for me,…