I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is the electorate’s seeming indifference to the global mess: an ...

In my upbringing, nobody discussed what went on behind closed doors. I grew up in a chaotic home. In the 1980s, people kept chaotic homes a secret. No one discussed what went on behind closed doors.

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has ...

If you organized your small business as an "S corporation," you have embraced the idea of remaining small. This is because an S corporation can't have more than 100 shareholders. You may remain small ...

Several times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...

“We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.” Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama Considered a ...

My posts about building the New Resiliency have focused mostly on relationships—looking at what's wrong with our model of adult love; the psychology of affairs; healing empathy deficit disorder; and ...

They may look similar and share certain qualities. But they are actually opposed to each other. Patience is a virtue, while indifference with its accompanying trait of insensitivity is a vice. And ...

Indifference is contagious, spreading through both systems and individuals. That’s why it must be noticed and interrupted early I didn’t decide one day to become indifferent. It crept in. A shrug here ...