The Northern Hemisphere saw its hottest July ever in 2020, surpassing the previous high record set in July 2019. August 2020 was the hottest month EVER on record, eclipsing the previous high which was August of 2019. This summer of 2020 now holds the unfortunate title of hottest summer ever. The past five years have […]

*A draft script for a Film Festival* Nathan had seen them all, every one of these pathetic quotes about making the most of each day. Blah, blah, blah…insufferable nonsense. He had read every self-help book on the market, blabbing on and on about living in the moment, live as if you were to die tomorrow. […]

*On the ballot this November is a referendum on character, decency, civility and morality. After all, a nation’s leader reflects what we will allow. Are these the values – the lies, the bullying, the chaos, the shameless attacks, the pure vitriol – that we are willing to accept?* America is at her breaking point; in […]

On a soccer field, a six year old boy winds up for a kick but only catches air, completely missing the ball and falls flat on his face.  Some of the players laugh; some look the other way.  It was pure humiliation.  But one teammate rushes over to dust him off and help him get […]

KarmaCafe: A meeting place where those who pass through the doorway find meaning, redemption and understanding as they discover their lives intersect in surprising ways and that we are all interconnected in some manner. This is not my story. Rather, this a story about all of us. Our story will be told through the lives […]

Drop a frog into a pot of extremely hot water and it will immediately leap out.  Put that same frog in a pot of cool water that slowly heats to a boil and the frog will not jump out.  It will remain in the increasingly hot water until it eventually boils and dies.  Why does […]

**Reposting as I miss my daily fix due to COVID!** We are a coffee culture.  In fact, coffee is so woven into the fabric of our daily lives that we don’t just simply drink coffee, we have coffee.  It is so integrated in our daily routine and often feels like an experience, an event of some […]

We are battling two viruses, often concurrently, but both devastating in different ways. The COVID-19 virus is a pandemic on a scale never seen in our lifetimes and has gripped all of humanity. It is an invisible enemy that has rapidly spread to all corners of the earth, reaching a milestone of 100,000 deaths in […]

*Reposting* Now is the time to recharge if we can free ourselves from the undercurrent of stress and anxiety this pandemic causes on our psyche. In our modern world today, this turbo-charged rat race we call daily existence, our schedules are so busy we rarely come up for air.  Aside from the random vacation or […]

*Reposting with the hope that we will yearn and desire a renewed connection with community once we don’t need to socially isolate* I was walking out of a supermarket when a homeless man pushing a shopping cart caught my attention in the far corner of my eye. He was hard to ignore, talking – yelling, […]