As 2010 begins, may your writing be a source of insight and wisdom for you, and a gift of blessing for those who come after you.
Rachael Freed | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living
Holiday rituals and traditions connect families over the generations. Communicating our memories and stories can revitalize this year's holidays, and even encourage family healing and forgiveness.
Rachael Freed | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Thanksgiving is a time when the legacy of family ritual is repeated and remembered. We feel gratitude and belonging, and our hearts open.
Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.
Rachael Freed | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
All of us yearn to be blessed; all of us need to be held securely in the love left so often unexpressed by our families and friends.
Rachael Freed | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
Older adults are developing new values and new perspectives: redefining self, relationships, and fundamental existential questions like time, space, life, and death.
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Ethical wills are about values, not valuables. But what about the category of stuff -- of value or not?
CNN | Elizabeth Cohen | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- She was called "the littlest refusenik," one of the many Soviet Jews denied permission to leave the Soviet Union becaus...
Ron Mirenda | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
Social capital allows us to invest in the future of society in areas we are passionate about and in those we strongly believe will make a difference in our society.
Rachael Freed | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
People are more open about sex and death than about money, which may be our last taboo. Though challenging, let's look at the relationship of money, values and legacy.
Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
The white-male affirmative action which bozos like George Bush benefited from undermine healthy competition and produce bad results.
Jim Selman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson's most important gift was that he allowed so many people to love him, to find in their sense of wonder and delight a bit of their own magic.
Rachael Freed | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
Our daughters and granddaughters, texting and twittering, can't imagine a world before computers, or television, a world when American women didn't have the freedom to vote.
Martin Lewis | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment
Rest in peace Billy Mays.
Rachael Freed | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living
As you honor your father this Father's Day, you can also give him the opportunity to bless you.
Publishers Weekly | Rachel Deahl | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business
In its most significant foray into publishing, Amazon has acquired world English rights to a self-published novel by a midwestern teenager called Lega...
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.
Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy
Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.
Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.
John Feffer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
With only one week left in what 61% of U.S. historians have called the worst presidency ever, it is time for one last, squirming appraisal of the damage done.
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green
Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
Rove and his colleagues will try to use sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors and outright lies to get us to forget the horrors of the past eight years.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...
Markus Ziener | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
Bush's presidency may someday be seen in a milder light, because in the last two years of his administration, he was able to pull off an inconspicuous, but in many ways fundamental, change of course.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Plan B was the legacy plan, designed to lock in as many Bush policies as possible before losing the presidency to the Democrats.
Rachael Freed | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living