I have a guest blogger this week - the following is excerpted from a sermon by my friend, co-author, and co-conspirator, Rev. Jim Beebe Rector of St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Incline Village, Nevada. He was preaching on a reading from Micah, but the message of the sermon is one...

Henry Kissinger said “power is the greatest aphrodisiac.” Given ol’ Hank’s track record with such ladies as Jill Ireland, I have to assume he was speaking from experience, particularly since he was never exactly in the Brad Pitt or George Clooney class of male eye candy.

The Kissinger quote came...

Well, it appears that getting into a White House State Dinner where the President and a visiting head of state are present is considerably easier than getting on a Southwest flight from Reno to Oakland.

For that half-hour trip, flyers need to show a picture ID,...

In a posting elsewhere on Huffington Post, blogger Anne Naylor writes of grace. She lists seven attributes that she believes "can lead toward living more gracefully:"

1. Surrender to a higher power
2. Sacrifice and forgive the negative emotions: fear, doubt, anger, resentment, guilt, blame, shame
3. Cultivate faith and...

 On his website at www.eatingthemoment.com, HP blogger Dr. Pavel Somov says:

Mind is its own hostage. Each belief, each schema, each defense is both an adaptation and a handicap. The very anchors that have helped you feel grounded may now hold you down with all the...

Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion (which includes the Episcopal Church in the US, the Church of England, and others) who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women, same-sex marriage, etc. He has even said that...

If you've been around the business world you are familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - by means of a relatively short set of questions it comes up with a "type" based on four bipolar dimensions:

• Extraversion - Intraversion - basically how you renew your energy - from...

David Letterman slept with one or more women who worked for him on his show. Threatened with extortion, he went on his show, told the audience what happened with directness, candor, and as much dignity as one can muster when (literally) caught with one's pants down.

David Letterman is an...