Our four-legged friends have much to teach us in the ways of compassion There’s always too much on my mind to try to get into one 600-word column, something a now-waning bronchial malaise has made a little more daunting. But “malaises” do remind us how much words of concern and empathy help, and how professional
My back is killing me. But before you ask, “What happened?” please offer some words of empathy and understanding. That little-known “rule” has general application. Preventing aching backs and most physical woes demands that we stand up every 20 minutes or so and move around. For some, age-related problems and waning strength make that difficult
Martin Luther King Jr. might have agreed with satirist Ogden Nash, who said, “Progress was all right once, but it went on too long.” The same might be said of unions, like the public-school bus drivers whose strike now has 150,000 students scrambling frantically to get to and from school. And King would worry that 
