Bronx, NY: We were standing in the press box at Yankee Stadium where my brother Eric was calling the game for the Texas Rangers. Jason Giambi hit a home run and the young man standing next to me let out a whoop! Then, realizing where he was, he stopped. As...

As 2011 gets underway, Russell Bishop, Senior Editor at Large of The Huffington Post and author of "Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work" (McGraw-Hill, Jan. 2011) draws on his own times of adversity as sources of strength, optimism and creativity.

As the holidays approach, they bring good news and bad news.

The good news is that the holidays are coming. That is also the bad news.

It does not matter if the economy is good or bad, if the country is at peace or at war. As soon as the...

If you are tired of pundits and bloggers rehashing sound-bites, New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss looks at today's economic and political crisis through a different lens. In her new book Defying Gravity (Hay House) she examines the current melt-down as a collective spiritual crisis that is...

After watching the commemorative pieces on the anniversary of Woodstock, I contacted my childhood friend Dr. Marilyn Bruno whose family owned property adjacent to Max Yasgur's farm. What was it like?
This is her account:

"I have nothing but sad feelings when I remember Woodstock. Over the years,...

"Don't let the recession get you down or you'll be landed with a dentist bill."

This just in from The London Daily Telegraph. Readers are advised to stop clenching and start "adopting a constructive and positive attitude to the future."

A trip to the dentist can trigger anxiety even...

It is easy to hate Bernie Madoff, especially if you lost money in the great Madoff Ponzi scheme. It's great to have a public villain to put in the media pillory. Scorn. Shame. Vilification. It sure feels good, doesn't it?

But does demonizing Bernie serve our best interest?

It's...

"We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation, and half of the students who begin college never finish." --President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009

Ask Bill Milliken about high school dropouts and he is quick to rattle off a flurry of depressing...

As a teacher of critical thinking skills in the workplace, I can't help noticing a distinct shift from the Ready-Fire-Aim approach of President Bush to President Obama's ability to describe his thinking process. Like the gentle reverberations of a Tibetan bell that is rung at the start of a period...

Let's face it. For some of us, this is a lousy time of year.

It doesn't matter if the economy is good or bad, if the country is at peace or at war. As soon as the Halloween decorations go back in the attic, there's the old familiar knot...

If you find yourself lurching from obligation to obligation this holiday season, wondering why you are not in the mood for shopping, parties, or celebratory hoop-lah, why not give yourself permission to stop performing and spend a few moments thinking about what Christmas means to you.

If there was one...

The past few times I tried to phone my Huffington Post colleague Dr. Alex Pattakos, I reached a "number that has been disconnected." Alex, who should win a "Soul of Patience" award, emailed me his correct phone number at least three times. En route to its destination in the "P"...

As a reformed adrenaline junkie, it is all too easy for me to get swept away on a tide of e-words: excitement, exuberance, enthusiasm, excellence, and euphoria top the list. For there is no high like living a dream come true.

We adrenaline junkies know too well the post-euphoria let-down....

The Governor of Alaska has "bossy woman cheeks." The message of her "politician's jaw?" My way or the highway!

According to the ancient Chinese art of face reading, our faces contain maps of our personality traits. It may sound like a parlor game, but face reading is considered...

Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi will never forget the day he killed the baby.

"It was a few months after the Americans arrived in 2003. A pregnant woman came into our emergency room, " he said. She needed a Caesarean section but the three surgeons on duty were caring...

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. And finally you do it for money.

I wish I could take credit for those lines but they were written by a non-WGA writer named Moliere. According to my 1958 edition of...

In thinking about Fathers' Day, it struck me that yet another opportunity for honoring the experience of parenting has turned into a commercial ritual of obligatory shopping. With that in mind, I was glad to catch up with my friend Dr. Wayne Dyer, best-selling author and father of eight children...

In the world of dreams, even a mundane laundry basket can communicate something out of the ordinary. When I dreamt of a slick yellow cobra coiled in the jumble of my daughter's laundry basket, it woke me up with a sense of foreboding. In a literal sense, cobras do not...