Yesterday, February 17, kicked off this week’s celebration of goodwill to others. All too often in our busy lives, we get wrapped up in what we do and what we need to do—our own versions of tunnel vision. Sometimes, we just don’t think about being nice to each other. It doesn’t mean we’re not good people. If we stopped a moment and thought about others too, we’d have a more pleasant get-along-together existence. There would be less stress and tribulation to endure. With all t

My coffee maker stopped working this morning in the way I’ve depended on it for years. Nooooooooooooooooooo! It made those wonderful brewing sounds for the appropriate amount of time and produced only two cups of melt-your-spoon-in-it coffee. The machine was still chugging away like The Little Engine that Could, but it couldn’t. If my coffee machine cared, it would be fearful of my threatening stares that pierce its reservoir to the very heart of its heating coil and plumbing