Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feileris an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 October 1964
CountryUnited States of America
odds generations stories
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
laundry profundity
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
reflection climbing light
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
adventure may lasts
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
fruit adam disappoint
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
daughter kissing drink-milk
One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop giving you hugs and kisses. And when I have no more love left, I just drink milk, because that’s where love comes from.’
children kids order
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.
children goal schedules
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
parent world today
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.
tired kids ideas
Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.
always-believe bits left
I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.
writing library eras
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
successful embrace family-history
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
writing world force
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?