Category: Life & Living

If the world of social sites such as YouTube has taught us anything, it’s just how dumb we really. Take Alexandra Wallace, a UCLA student who recently posted a three-minute bitch session on YouTube about all the Asian students on campus. She whined about how they use their cell phones in the library and drag their entire family on campus for regular housecleaning – even pathetically mocking their accent to further add insult to injury. But nothing amused me more than when she said they should “learn American manners” and make their calls elsewhere. Really? Does she live in this country or just spend most of her life hidden on the floor of her closet? Americans learn manners? Please. We’ve become some of the rudest, most uncaring people around, and…

Famed author and renowned lecturer Leo Buscaglia championed the cause of how we seek happiness and create loving relationships over the course of our lifetime.  He once told the story of how he was asked to judge a competition in search of the most caring child alive today. To the surprise of many, the young boy who won did so based more on his actions than on his words. The young boy had an elderly neighbor whose wife had recently passed away.  Upon seeing the old man crying, the little boy made his way into the neighbor’s yard, climbed onto his lap and just sat there silently with him. When he returned home his mother asked what he had said to the old man while he was there on his…