Labor Day is coming up in a hurry and it made me think of an ancient question that is as important now as it was a year ago or ten years ago or a thousand years ago: “Why do we do what we do? How can we have a happy, meaningful life?” The answer is [...]

For a long, long time — for whatever reason — I lived my life in a kind of cocoon. It was a state of numbness in which I felt isolated from the rest of the world. I may have looked peaceful on the outside, but inside there was mostly pain. Fun? I scarcely knew what [...]