My life has taken a few twists and turns recently, and many outside observers would probably call them “turns for the worse.”  My car won’t run for some reason, I haven’t been able to sell my condo for three months, and my investments have taken a beating.  Five years ago, I definitely would have lost [...]

I used to go through life without really seeing or hearing much of the world around me.  Instead, I was mostly seeing images and hearing sounds created by my mind.  Rather than seeing what was happening in the world, I was watching mental pictures of past events from my life—usually ones I regretted, and of [...]