Do you crave intimacy? Has love betrayed you? Often, our lives begin with a need for love, and our life stories consist of searching for it. Love can be dangerous. One reason is that it's volatile. A passionless relationship may not have much excitement, but neither does it have much capacity for failure. When you aim low, for mere companionship,...

Every night before bed, I tuck my daughter in and she tells me what she wants to dream about. Some nights she chooses to dream of Tinkerbell.  Other nights it’s playing with cousins and dancing on clouds.  Butterflies are a constant staple.  These are good choices for my little four year old. In a small way, I envy my daughter.  She’s...

The news is full of crumbling relationships.   Disputes and betrayals result in divorce, devastation and in one tragic story this week, even death.    We can’t help but watch with a combination of disgust and intrigue.   The people who we’ve placed on the pedestal of success are letting us down.   In a sick way it makes them seem normal. Cincinnati...

How do we understand our world? When we experience things, do we base our understanding on ourselves? If our meaning in life is based on our emotions, this meaning will always change. If our life is going well, life will seem great. If it's not, it'll seem terrible. This is why finding real meaning in life requires more than just me. It has to...

Everyone has "cravings" ... desires and needs that must be fulfilled. We can try to ignore them, deny them by calling them illusions, or fill them with meaningless things, but ultimately that won't satisfy us. Maybe these cravings, which can't be satisfied adequately by any of the things in this world, aren't there by accident. Maybe they are...

Tiger Woods comments on his blog, “ I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings...

The headlines proclaimed the potential fall of another celebrity. The scandal began with a car crash in the middle of the night.  Shortly after, photos of a mistress surfaced and we all heard a voicemail recording threaten to tear another family apart. Tiger Woods, who has spent his career sporting a squeaky clean image now is cloaked with scandal. These...