Blame

One does not decide what happens to him; one decides what he wants to do with what happens to him...

While no one will argue that man’s psyche is a tabula rasa, the question is: to what extent do we control the choices that we make? Whom can I blame? Where does my choice begin?

The stress of the morning reached its crescendo, and I proceeded to lay down my royal flush of emotional cards in my epic battle to win the "blame game" with my husband...

I wanted to be free of the thoughts that kept me in bondage, but I didn't know how to let go. I couldn't talk about it. I was so ashamed...it was my fault Mama passed...

"Jay," my friend wrote in his e-mail, "I don’t think you should go to shul and ask G-d for forgiveness. This Yom Kippur you should stay home, and G-d should beg you to forgive Him for what He's done to you"

We can choose our partners, our job, the place we live -- is the common wisdom -- but we can't choose our parents. Yaakov Lieder, son to two parents and parent to 14, disagrees

Return bullets with flowers. Lie low. Ponder what you like about this person. And then defuse the whole situation with a smile.

No matter what we choose to do in order to address our anger, it cannot include waiting for the world around us to improve.

Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason - interal and external.

The man I am thinking of marrying can be very sweet and kind. But just when we are getting along well, he suddenly changes...