Community, Community Building, Personal Development

The Importance of Learning to Reflect Without Backbiting

A couple of years ago, I went through an extremely difficult situation. A misunderstanding was being compounded by past experiences, and a friend of mine was reacting badly—and increasingly so—to every attempt I made to iron things out. I cannot understate the pain of that experience nor the amount of time and energy I poured… Read More The Importance of Learning to Reflect Without Backbiting

Celebrity Culture, Community, Community Building

We can also Profit from their Wedding: Why We Should not Talk Negatively about Kim and Kanye’s Big Day

In recent weeks, there has been an increasing number of negative comments on my Tumblr dashboard, my Twitter and Facebook feeds, and in the various opinion blogs I follow about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding choices, especially when it came to light that they are standing to make a lot of money off their… Read More We can also Profit from their Wedding: Why We Should not Talk Negatively about Kim and Kanye’s Big Day

General

Celebrity Gossip: How much is too much?

There is such a thing as healthy curiosity. And it’s only normal that we be curious about our role models, trying to find out as much as we can about them to learn to apply what makes them so great. But there is something wrong about our role models being misbehaving celebrities and there is… Read More Celebrity Gossip: How much is too much?