Jim Leff's Slog

"Perspective" is what we develop when, with the benefit of time, we're able to frame something more aptly than is possible fro...

There's an enormous, unimaginable cresting tidal movement happening in a very specific setting, and you almost surely don't know abo...

My family is a perfect social experiment for this. None of them has ever felt wrong, while I’ve rarely felt confidently right. And our res...

Felix Dennis wrote that "The transition from poverty to comfort is a massive leap in human happiness. The transition from comfort to we...

This is a world where people stare blankly, waiting, in their boredom, for you to tap dance. Here's the thing. I'll tap dance on a...

Forgiving You For My Mistake I once noted that when someone takes away a false impression of you, and you can make them recognize their m...

My physical therapist told me I'd need to ice my knee for a few days. I asked if it would need more than one icing per day. "More t...

The rigidly taciturn manager-cashier at the one good Chinese grocery in town, who tersely speaks in minimal Portuguese, and who doesn't ...

This is part of a series of postings on self-healing, which you can access via the "Self-Healing" tag which appears in the Slog’s ...

You can substitute in that quote, instead of Christ, "negative space", and it still works well. By negative space, I mean all of...