The Turk’s Corner Yep, the title sounds odd but let me explain; psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we swear and why we choose the words we do when we swear. Timothy Jay is one of the many scholars who try to answer these questions. And [...]

You would recognize him if you saw him. A well-known character actor, he has appeared in dozens of movies and on numerous television shows. He appeared as Guido the pimp in Risky Business. He was Tommy Lee Jones’s sidekick in The Fugitive. He portrayed the traitor Cypher in The Matrix. And he played Ralphie on [...]

The universe cannot put good into your hand, until you let go of what you are holding in it. If you walk down the beach, you leave footprints in the sand. But give the wind and the waves a few minutes, and those tracks will be filled in. Just as vegetation will cover a field [...]

For years psychologists have attempted to divide people into various categories. Sometimes an observant poet can do a better job. Ella Wheeler Wilcox did so in the poem “Which Are You?” There are two kinds of people on earth today; Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. Not the sinner and saint, for [...]

Reading Between the Lines What does it take to change people’s perspective and help them see the big picture for the first time in their lives? Sometimes it’s getting married. Other times it’s getting divorced. Or having a child. The bottom line is that people need to understand that everything is not about them. Angelina [...]