by Michael Parise | Jun 5, 2012
What is your deepest desire? If there were no limits at all placed on achieving what you really want in your life, what would it be? Sensing that we do not deserve or cannot achieve our deepest desires is self-defeating. We were not meant to dream in vain. The...
by Michael Parise | Jun 2, 2012
In 2007 I had an acoustic neuroma removed from my right skull. This is a benign tumor of the insulating cells of the balance nerve. It occurs quite often and can strike anyone at almost any age. It grows slowly, but can cause a lot of long-term damage, affecting...
by Michael Parise | May 24, 2012
I had been working with Tim on a project and we’d been getting excited over the fact that he was becoming a dad for a second time very soon. In fact his wife is due as I am writing this blog. Tim and Beth have an older son, about two years old. They’ll be awash in...
by Michael Parise | May 20, 2012
A lot of what passes for spirituality is actually religion. Religion by definition is that which connects us to something or someone beyond us. Religion consists of ritual acts and community involvement whereby an individual immerses himself in an objective reality...
by Michael Parise | May 17, 2012
I find that men often approach dating as a dreaded opportunity to be shamed into oblivion. Aside from those guys who seem to ooze self-confidence and project themselves as genuine gifts to society, the rest of us quake in our boots when having to approach a man or...