by David Figura
Day in and day out, what are you grateful for? This question is part of a new approach to life that I’m trying out these days. Each morning, the first thing I do is pick up a pen and pad of paper that I keep on my bedstand. I write down one thing I’m grateful for....
by David Figura
I don’t make this stuff up. Results from a new study done by researchers at the University of Warwick in England indicates there’s evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes. The bottom line, say researchers, is that the tendency of humans to have...
by David Figura
I was in college when I popped the question to my father. “So Dad, what do you think of my girlfriend?” I asked I’ll never forget his response. “Why are you asking me? If you decide to marry her, you’re the one who’s going to have to sleep with her the rest of your...
by David Figura
New York Times columnist David Brooks, in his column entitled, “The Heart Grows Smarter,” makes a number of significant points. Among them, the citing of a study that concludes, “It was the capacity for intimate relationships that predicted flourishing in...
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by David Figura
It should be required listening for every father. I’m talking about Harry Chapin’s song, “Cat’s in the Cradle.” I can’t listen to Chapin’s 1974 hit song — even today with my son and daughter out of the house —...
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by David Figura
A psychologist once told me that if you want to see a grown man cry get him talking about his father. I cried last weekend. I was just overwhelmed with emotion. Dad’s been dead for more than two years, but I felt he was with me, right by my side. After four years of...
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