I’m not talking to you! Ever been given the silent treatment? It usually comes from hurt or offense—someone cuts you off, refuses to communicate, and pretends you don’t exist. This behavior signals emotional immaturity and relational dysfunction. Healthy relationships are marked by good communication; poor ones by negative patterns or avoidance. This applies not only to …
Some people love the movie The Princess Bride. It’s not something I’d personally watch again, but it does have one particularly memorable monologue. Forced to wed the bad guy, the heroine stands before a hapless priest—unable to pronounce his Rs or Ls—who begins the ceremony with his famous speech: “Mawage is wot bwings us togeder …
Early in the morning, as I was exercising in the basement, I heard a strange sound—something lightly tapping against a window. Initially, I assumed it was a squirrel attempting to steal birdseed from the feeder outside the kitchen window. But then, something caught my eye. I stopped exercising and slowly approached the little culprit. Outside …
The Rocky Mountains of Colorado are home to intriguing wildlife including elk, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, pronghorn antelope, black bears, and mountain lions. Another is the mule deer, so named for its exceptionally large ears that feature a unique cupped structure optimized for collecting sound. Their ears can be independently rotated almost 180 degrees, …
