Articles on PR for People

Healing Your Heart By Changing Your Mind

Folks on the comedy circuit will recognize the man with the mile-high hair and megawatt smile instantly. Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian is a fixture in the comedy world, as a writer for many of the top comedians who preside at the New York Friars Club’s fabled roasts, and with his own ComedyMatters TV show on Facebook.


How Will History Judge Donald Trump?

According to the former Arkansas governor and Presidential wannabee, Mike Huckabee, President Trump will rank right up there with Winston Churchill.  Well, Huckabee’s judgment-call about Trump tells you a lot about Huckabee – and about our country.  For starters, his ignorance of history is appalling, and such a glib comparison is, as one commentator put it, “ridiculous”. 


Interview with Rhonda Collard-Spratt and Jacki Ferro, Aboriginal Memoirists

Rhonda Collard-Spratt is a voice for the mission children of Australia’s Stolen Generations. Rhonda is an engaging performer, an Aboriginal dancer, singer-songwriter, poet, artist, and storyteller. She has worked in women’s prisons around suicide prevention, helping them reconnect with their Aboriginality. Jacki Ferro is a community development worker, writer and editor based in Brisbane. Since the 1990s, Jacki has run cross-cultural, unifying projects that promote self-determination, community education and social justice. As Community Relations Officer at Ipswich in 2000, Jacki instigated the Link Up! Multicultural Festival and the first Sorry Day March. Qualified in public relations, social planning, and writing, editing and publishing, in 2013 Jacki began co-writing and editing memoirs of inspirational, brave people.


Digital Strategy for Happiness

We live in a time when information abounds, a moment away courtesy of the ability to open a phone or tablet and look something up at a moment’s notice. With voice commands you can even do this while driving. You can also ask Amazon Echo or Alexa or Google Home to look something up while you go about your business at home. But is that what makes for happiness and joy, or is it just satisfaction?  And when a generation is accustomed to these tools, will it become purely expectation, and thus, nothing special at all?


Finding Euphoria: What Makes You Happy?

American backroads travelers often spend inordinate amounts of time looking for off-the-beaten-path treasures in old-time diners, vintage service stations, kitschy theme parks, and mom-and-pop gift shops. They simply search for what makes them happy.


"The Enemy Within"

The idea of an “enemy within” is so gut-grabbing and scare-mongering that it has been used many times for book titles. The title has been used for an entire haunted house full of closet enemies. I would like to nominate yet another candidate for this menagerie of enemies.  It involves a mortal threat to our democracy. It is the combined result of a confluence of corrosive forces, and bad actors – an imperfect storm. What needs to be changed?  The answer is, all of the above.  

 

From Cape Town, South Africa Mistletoe Mischief: An Interview

The festive season is upon us. Lazy days, slowing down, relaxing, spending time with loved ones- be it cold or sunny, depending on where you might find yourself on the globe. Who better than South African comedian Anne Hirsch to answer some happy questions?


What the Republican Tax Package Means

The deep purpose of the current (Fall 2017) tax package, poorly disguised behind a smoke-screen of bald-faced lies, is to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor -- and the middle-class, and future generations.  Those of us who already benefit the most from our society will pay less taxes (in some cases billions of dollars less), while taking benefits away from the rest of us.


T’was the Night Before Christmas and Not Santa but the Midwife Delivers the Present

T’was the night before Christmas in the rural countryside outside of Powell, Wyoming, located near picturesque Montana and Yellow Stone Park. Two young sisters Emerald, age 4, and Beverly, age 20 months, were asleep downstairs, in a room furnished just for them in their two- story home, while their dad, Nate, and pregnant mom, Brittany, were upstairs also asleep. In the living room was a Christmas tree wonderfully decorated, its branches sheltering the presents that Santa Claus had brought the two young girls.


The Evolution of “Zoon Politikon” (The Political Animal)

Aristotle, it seems, got it right.  Politics may have played a key role in human evolution as the classic primate pattern of male dominance hierarchies shifted to a pattern of consensual leadership for common goals and collective action.