As a little boy, the days leading up to Christmas took forever.
It didn’t help that everyone started preparing so early. Just after Thanksgiving, neighbors started putting up blue and red and green lights along their roofs, wrapping the trees in their lawns with yellow and white. On TV I saw ads for Christmas shopping and as I rode the bus to school in the morning the radio played Christmas songs, even though Christmas was still four weeks away. In school, my kindergarten teacher had us make paper stockings with cotton …

By Dr. Gary S. Goodman
If there’s one benefit from writing best-selling books it is hearing from your readers.
If you have left little bread crumbs along the path, they’ll write and call you and let you know what they thought of your efforts.
I’ve been lucky to have had hundreds, if not thousands of people communicate with me, and many have been kind enough to lavish praise upon me.
One memorable reader left an anonymous message on my voice mail saying: “You have no idea how many MILLIONS of dollars your ideas have …

I had a lot of questions, a lot of comments about my “Something Sexy, Something Beautiful” article a few weeks back. People didn’t understand it. Some didn’t want to believe it, or couldn’t. They heard the words, but they felt like only words.
“Seth, I read it and it made sense to me, but it doesn’t feel real for me. You tell me I’m beautiful if I want to be, but it’s not what I’m told, or what I feel 24/7. I feel fat. I feel ugly. I feel like I’m …