Life Lessons

J.J. Richardson

Oct 256 min read

The Wisdom of Stoicism

Would you want the people around you to treat you with wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance?

J.J. Richardson

Apr 62 min read

The Sounds of Music

What do symphonic musical instruments sound like?

J.J. Richardson

Jan 14, 20234 min read

Top-10 Pop Songs Ever

Here is my top-10 list of pop songs ever. But first, I’ll provide you with the criteria I used to select these songs.

J.J. Richardson

Aug 25, 202210 min read

Top-3 Teachers

William Joseph Clabby, Dorothy Jean Worthy, and Robert E. Heninger.

J.J. Richardson

Aug 4, 20227 min read

Dry Humor to Wet Your Whistle

The greatest benefit of dry humor is you get to skip the awkward, unnatural machinations of ordinary joke-telling.

J.J. Richardson

Jul 25, 202214 min read

How to Be an Ideal Parent

How can we manage the task of raising children over a twenty-year span when it seems no one knows for sure how to do it?

J.J. Richardson

Apr 4, 20226 min read

Sincerity

How can we impart knowledge, wisdom, and kindness to our relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers, without sincerity?

J.J. Richardson

Dec 29, 20215 min read

Ideal Pace

To keep a steady pace, you must keep an unsteady pace.

J.J. Richardson

Dec 6, 20215 min read

Patient Persuasion

Central to all human interaction is persuasion.

J.J. Richardson

Oct 28, 20216 min read

Low Self-esteem

At some point most of us learn that bullies are weak people. We learn they’re not so tough once we’ve had enough and finally confront them.

J.J. Richardson

Sep 24, 202110 min read

Ideologue

I long for persuasion over coercion, teaching over indoctrination, and example over cancellation.

J.J. Richardson

Sep 21, 20215 min read

Procrastination

Rest assured, procrastination is not about laziness or lack of self-control.

J.J. Richardson

Aug 26, 20213 min read

Advice for Engaged Couples

Here is the most important and concise list of principles I can find for young people considering marriage.

J.J. Richardson

Jul 23, 202115 min read

What is a Conservative?

The modern conservative movement is in line with the liberal movement of the 1960s.

J.J. Richardson

Jun 20, 20218 min read

The Best Mother

I learned over the years that our mother wasn't the meanest mother in the word, but the best.

J.J. Richardson

May 16, 20214 min read

Plastic Recycling

It didn’t take me more than a half-hour of casual Internet research to understand why we’re not recycling plastics like we wish we could.

J.J. Richardson

Apr 6, 20212 min read

The Assumption Mark

The rules of English grammar provide us with question marks, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, but no assumption mark.

J.J. Richardson

Mar 12, 20213 min read

The Future of Storytelling

Reciting tales has been a part of human life from the earliest discovered cave drawings until the present day.

J.J. Richardson

Mar 2, 20212 min read

Copy That

In our lives do we seek to personify the attributes of the Great Creator or the Great Copier?

J.J. Richardson

Dec 14, 20204 min read

Date Your Spouse Regularly

Most of the time, your life is how you want it to be. You are the reason your life is the way it is.

J.J. Richardson

Oct 31, 202010 min read

Role of a Just Government

Books written on the proper role of government fill entire library shelves. One could study the wisdom of the world’s greatest political...

J.J. Richardson

Jul 22, 20206 min read

Top-7 Villains

Why am I having difficulty picking ten villains? I believe it's because fiction must be entertaining, and that includes its villains.

J.J. Richardson

Jul 14, 20203 min read

Voice of an Angel

I suspect that angels can be far more terrifying than anything you have come across in your lifetime.

J.J. Richardson

Jun 21, 20203 min read

The Candy Bar

On one occasion, I asked Mother if I could have one candy bar. Just one. To my surprise she said, "Yes."