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Insurance and the Risks of Life in an Uncertain Universe

July 13, 2010 By Brian Leave a Comment

Have you ever thought about why we buy insurance to handle risk in our lives? After purchasing auto, home, health and life insurance, you'll probably get a sales pitch from an appliance store sales … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, family, health, Health Care, Health Insurance, Homes, Internal Peace, Jobs, life, People Tagged With: unemployment, universe

Contracting Universes and the Law of Abundance

November 8, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Before I begin, let me flatly state I'm not a physicist, an economist (heaven, forbid) nor a guru on the lecture circuit telling people how to get wealthy. Neither am I a religious zealot, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, god, History, Internal Peace, Success, universe Tagged With: abundance, contracting universe, cosmology, economy, existence, laws of the universe, possibilities, time, universe

Health Care Reform Stifled by Drug Companies

The Washington Post reported two unrelated stories that, considered together, demonstrate a concerted effort by large drug companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to kill health care reform. The reports are disturbing and reveal two major challenges to controlling health care costs in the U.S. First–and most disturbing–the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in concert [...]

Internet Privacy in a Sea of Web Cookies

Worried about Internet privacy, web monitoring, flash cookies and who’s watching your website activity? Need better privacy protection in your life? Read on. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published the first article in a series called “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets,” a comprehensive piece describing how ad networks and Internet tracking companies are [...]

Cannabis Clubs for People with Pain Hit San Jose

People suffering with painful illnesses keep getting hit up by city law enforcement. They’re at least 20 states across the nation where cannabis clubs that secure pot for medicinal purposes flourish. And San Jose is one of them. Per this morning’s Mercury News, patients used to have to trek up to San Francisco to get [...]

Dictionaries for Kids at Hayward’s Park Elementary School

How many of you remember dictionaries when you were a kid? I’m not sure the year a dictionary and my eyeballs connected (probably early in my education), but I do remember the Webster’s dictionary my Aunt and Uncle gave me as a high school gift–the most useful and lasting gift I’ve ever received. John Wilma, [...]

Monkey and the Coconut: Letting Go of Behaviors and Beliefs

Most of us have a hard time letting go of our beliefs, our actions and thoughts. I know I do. As we engage in our day-to-day activities at work and home, we tend to cling to the familiar and avoid the unfamiliar. We hold on to thoughts and attitudes that don’t challenge us. We vote [...]

MobiSnippets are Coming Soon? What are MobiSnippets? What Do They Want?

They’re’s a rumor that something called “MobiSnippets”are coming to MobileBeyond, MobileDiscoveries, IM-Mobile and my personal blog. So I’ve scratched my head, asked all the neighbors what they are, and no one can tell me. Suzie told me they’re not sharks like the ones that visited the Golden Gate Bridge. Or those icebergs that invaded New [...]

Jean and Mary Ruth Dargis - St. Victor's Church, San Jose, CA

Tribute to a Choral Director: Jean Dargis of St. Victor’s Church

They say you only meet a few people in your life who change you as a person. Jean Dargis, former Choral Director and Administrator of St. Victor’s Catholic Church in San Jose, CA, was one of them. Jean passed away this week. While I lived in San Jose, my home town, I sang in Jean’s [...]

Great White Sharks Visit Golden Gate Bridge

Californian’s are a strange lot, no doubt, but neither earthquakes nor floods nor swine flu nor collapsing bridges bring us to our knees. And that goes for sharks too. We’re a hardy bunch here in the Bay Area and we treat recent reports of great whites poking around the Golden Gate Bridge like water off [...]