By Donald B. Ardell - 02.09.14

Introduction

Recently, I was asked to go along with a friend to a Toastmasters meeting. Despite a 40-some-year career involving lots of public speaking, I had never been. It’s not that I wasn’t interested. I assumed it would be worthwhile to turn up at a Toastmasters function and learn more about the art and science of public speaking. I’ve long been interested in articles and workshops on this topic and the related focus that Toastmaster’s develops towards...

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By Donald B. Ardell - 01.12.14

Introduction 

A sizable segment of the American public is weary of news about religious - based horrors. The daily incidents of Islamic terrorism around the world, religion-based human rights abuses by Zionist Israelis, including divisive Jewish settlements that inflame tensions in the Middle East, Hindu mass murders of Muslims and occasional Christians in Pakistan and India, pedophile Catholic priests in America and, of course, the hateful right-wing ...

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By Donald B. Ardell - 12.08.13

Introduction: The Whipple Perspective

In a remarkable account of what the researchers termed a delusion, social scientists at America’s most loved, most dubious research institution (The Onion) documented a South Dakota man’s beneficial, wellness-enhancing conviction that he’s God. 

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By Donald B. Ardell – 11.24.13

In 2013 in one of the most progressive counties in the State of Florida, it is an “open secret” that racial and religious discrimination is practiced in many if not most area hospitals. Seems hard to believe, but when black or other minority hospital personnel report discrimination to management, they discover that a quiet, unpublicized policy allowing racial and religious discrimination exists. The policy can be found in what officials call a "hospital-wide directive."...

 

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Robert Green Ingersoll suggested that no one should fail to pick up every jewel of joy that can be found in his path. Some people seem able to locate such jewels along the most unlikely and foreboding of paths; all of us might learn from their examples. ...

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By Donald B. Ardell – 11.03.2013

I agree with Andrew Bartelt, who said that the book, “TheSchopenhauer Cure by Irwin D. Yalom, has “all the topics that matter - philosophy, therapy, love, sexual addiction, meditation and relationships. It's awesome. I read it in one sitting."...

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