People once spoke 75,000 languages worldwide. Now, it is just 7,500, with Arabic and Hindi among most common

 Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most ‌common, counting native and non-native speakers. That is a lot of...

People still rely on landlines and don’t want to lose them

Living high up in the Hollywood Hills, Peter and Nanci Ellis think of their landline as a lifeline. Most days, cellphone service in their Los Feliz Oaks home near...

Try not to be boring at gatherings

A lot of people don't like going to social gatherings because they feel that what’s likely to happen is that they might be left standing in a corner because...

Hope is not a feeling but a strategy

We use the word 'hope' freely. We hope for better grades, hope our children find their path, hope the education system keeps up with a world that changes faster...

The bigger picture

There are things we may not know

After we've expressed our satisfaction with a company's service we are almost always asked by them to give them a glowing Google Review. And if I've been genuinely happy...

Helping others remains my guiding light always

Earlier this week I left a medical appointment, walked onto the elevator, waited for it to whoosh me to the lobby 18 floors below and started thinking about trust....

Isn’t it time to declutter your surroundings?

We’re all guilty of accumulating clutter. The word clutter does sound derogatory for items that you may love and can’t part with. Clutter is something that you have lying...

Some words never leave us

Some words, regardless of their source, can do for us what whole libraries can’t. Sounds exaggerated, but permit me to share a couple of pages from my ill-kept notebook...

Make social media social again

Lately, it seems like each time I reach out to an old acquaintance through social media, I’m met with a page that reads, “This account doesn’t exist anymore.” Many...