by Michael Parise | Sep 30, 2015
Ask almost anyone today, “Do you feel free?” What answers will you get? Lots of people feel free…kind of. More than ever the ability to live our lives as we please without external constraints is limited. But radical freedom that enables us to live full and rich...
by Michael Parise | Dec 8, 2012
What is your biggest fear, the one you’ve struggled to overcome for years, the one that continues to stymie your best efforts at conquering? Some people fear the concrete: animals or insects, flying or closed spaces. My biggest fear is less tangible. I fear living...
by Michael Parise | Dec 6, 2012
Not enough is written or spoken about children who are being raised primarily or exclusively by men. The tendency in our culture is to believe that only mothers are innately capable of nurturing children. Our media do little to dispel this myth. Yet nothing is...
by Michael Parise | Nov 18, 2012
I really don’t have much I wish to be thankful for. I am not thankful that a huge number of my brothers and sisters continue to suffer from the recession. I am not thankful that my neighbors’ homes are under water, sometime literally! I am not thankful that I can’t...
by Michael Parise | Nov 12, 2012
Okay, full confession: I have centuries of Southern Italian blood coursing through my veins. And I’m half Sicilian, so given that Island’s history I probably have Arabic, Greek, French, Latin, and North African influences. So it’s no surprise that I react strongly...