By David Hegg Somewhere, someone snuck into our social dictionary and changed the meaning of “maturity.” The consequence of this is a growing sense that those character qualities and ethical
I have a good friend who recently told me how he spent a month without using his phone or any social media. He said that, although the first few days
By David Hegg At one point in my life I was an athlete. I was never the star of the team, but I played, added to the team effort, and
By David Hegg Over my years counseling families, and especially married couples, I have found that most problems can be traced back to the area of expectations. And I’ve boiled
By David Hegg By nature we choose the easy way. This used to be described as the way of least resistance, but increasingly we could label it the way of
By David Hegg Now that football has ended, we baseball fans can look forward to spring training, and the undiluted joys of another Major League Baseball season. Remember? Baseball is
By David Hegg In the academic arena, the study of philosophy is usually broken down into the areas of metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. The last of these seeks to understand
By David Hegg By this time next week the vote centers in our valley will be open for business. From Feb. 22 to March 3 you and I will be
By David Hegg Many years ago a popular song declared that “love will keep us together.” But apparently it doesn’t, at least not in its most popular form. The statistical
By David Hegg It is popular today to suggest that our country is experiencing a lack of leadership. In the current political discussions I hear it all the time. “We
By David Hegg I have a really good friend who can often be heard complimenting something wonderful as being “to die for.” But recently I’ve been taking stock of that level
By David Hegg Just for fun I looked up the definition of “value” on my computer’s dictionary. After sifting through the various ways the word is used in the English
By David Hegg From the time we start to walk and talk there seems to be a drive in all of us to succeed. No one wants to be last.
By David Hegg Every new year brings the promise of improvement. Our great hope is that this year will be better than the one just past. We hope for better
By David Hegg I have several quirks that too often show up in conversations. One of them is that I am intrigued by the weird phrases and terms we throw
By David Hegg Perhaps nothing demonstrates the reality of a person’s integrity more than their willingness to keep a promise. As the great Alaskan poet Robert Service once wrote, “a
By David Hegg I think it was about my 40th year that I realized how much of my life had been spent living in the future. So many of my
By David Hegg Our society is obsessed with health. Or maybe it is better said that we are obsessed with the idea of health. All around us new discoveries and
By David Hegg I almost didn’t put Christmas lights on the house this year. It wasn’t that I came across some cogent intellectual reason to end the tradition. I was
By David Hegg As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, the cloud of anger and despair brought on by the Saugus shooting still lingers over us. For some, a time of
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