Being a Culinary Connoisseur

Let me come clean right at the outset: I am not a trained chef. I’ve never attended culinary school, I don’t own one of those tall white hats, and no one is going to confuse me with Wolfgang Puck. But I do love to cook. There is something wonderfully therapeutic about working in the kitchen—chopping, […]

Building Your Power of Expression Aforementioned, adj. Pronunciation: əˈfôrˌmen(t)SHənd Meaning: This word denotes a thing or person previously mentioned or referred to earlier, especially earlier in the same conversation, document, or piece of writing. In conversational English, it basically means “the thing/person I mentioned before.” Usage: “I will be playing various songs from the aforementioned […]

Greetings readers! I bring you Issue #360 of Uncommon Sense with great pleasure! The Self-Development column will confront the issue of the importance of your own personal core values and why it is important to regularly revisit them and emotionally reconnect with them. Effective people of accomplishment maintain integrity and congruence by aligning with their […]

Before I begin planning each new week, I engage in a brief exercise that takes only a few minutes but often changes the way I approach the days ahead. I pause and reconnect with my core values. Years ago, I learned a weekly planning process from Stephen R. Covey that began not with appointments or […]

I am going to begin with a premise. My premise is straightforward: it is biologically impossible for a man to become an actual woman or for a woman to become an actual man. Modern medicine can alter a person’s appearance through surgery and hormone therapy. It can change certain secondary sex characteristics. But it cannot […]

If you Mac Users out there spend any amount of time working on a computer, taking screenshots is probably part of your daily routine. But if you’re still relying on your operating system’s built-in screenshot tool, you’re missing out on one of the most polished productivity apps I’ve ever used. CleanShot X is a powerful […]

This week I found myself in a place that most people spend their lives hoping never to enter: a women’s prison. A small group of us had been invited there to spend an hour with about fifty inmates. We sang a few songs, offered words of encouragement, prayed together, and, perhaps most importantly, simply spent […]

Building Your Power of Expression Scurrilous, adj. Pronunciation: ‘skaralas Meaning: This word refers to the making of scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation. Important note: it almost always carries the implication that the attack is not merely harsh but also unfair, abusive, or malicious. It is not ordinarily used for […]

We’ve got some great content here in Issue #359 of Uncommon Sense! We all make mistakes. But how we respond to our own mistakes really matters. We cannot afford to be cavalier about them, nor can we afford to be too hard on ourselves. The Self-Development column helps you strike the proper balance. We recently […]

Most of us are far more forgiving of other people than we are of ourselves. A friend makes a mistake at work, and we tell him, “Don’t beat yourself up. Learn from it and move on.” Yet when we make a similar mistake, we become our own harshest critic. We replay the error repeatedly, dwell […]