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Liberty Mutual, the insurance company, has this online driving test called Driver’s Test. Caution, annoying music starts to play. meant to simulate some of the challenges that elderly drivers face when they’re out on the road. Yeah, if you are driving your car using arrows on a keyboard. You know up arrow for accelerate, down area for stop, right for right, left for left. I HATE games...

I tried hard to keep from pushing the buzzer I had hidden in my hand, but my finger had a mind of its own. Before I even had time to react mentally, the buzzer sprang into action and did its job – the woman sitting directly across from me felt the full force of the zap – she jerked her head to the left and then to the right, and I silently laughed. Maybe now that broad would put a lid on it,...

Have you ever really given thought to the conversation that is going on 24/7 in your mind? Anyone who meditates has certainly seen easy it is to get hooked into various patterns of thinking!! It is important to notice these things. Quite often thoughts slip out our mouths before we're aware they were going to do so. My teacher, the late Rev. Helen Street, once said that she only had...

We are born with two ears and one mouth. There may be a sound reason for that. It is hardly a...