In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.