What if you are the light?
The idea of going small right now is bathed in wisdom....
Read MoreThe Backstory Jones of the Old Shoes is based on bedtime stories I began telling my son, Max, when he was 5-years-old. So, the book has been in the works for 30 years! In 1999, Max was a 10-year-old fifth grader, and I was about to publish my...
Read MoreThe Power of Authenticity in Relationships: How Vulnerability Leads to Trust and Intimacy Authenticity. There isn’t much of it out there these days. Maybe there is among the animals who don’t know anything else. They never learned how to fake it. Increasingly, we humans are faced...
Read MoreHow Sharing Your Personal Story Can Build Trust and Connection We all have a personal story, and it contains the seeds of our identity and secrets of who you are. The question is: Do you want to share your story with others? Do you want others...
Read MoreThe other day, I read an article in the New York Times about two Canadian men who were switched at birth by mistake. Each went home with the wrong parents. Now, 67 years later, the mistake has been discovered. It’s effect on each man has...
Read MoreWhat is my message? is a question that has an out-sized impact on our lives, even when we aren’t aware of it....
Read MoreSometimes, all of this suffering gets to me, yet I am powerless to alleviate it. It’s too much. Too big. Too far away. Still, to do nothing isn’t an option....
Read MoreA friend of mine recently sent me this LinkedIn post by someone named David Reed. Actually, it’s not a post; it’s a meditation on mortality. But more. It is a meditation on life. The power and grace of his words startled me. I wondered whether...
Read MoreWe live in a world informed by the goals we set for ourselves. To be an A student. To learn how to make world-beating Italian food. To finish writing that children’s book. To make the varsity tennis team. To be able to play guitar with...
Read More“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.” These words from George Steiner, a leading, French-born American literary critic, struck me as perfectly fitting for how we live today. Or don’t. We live in chaotic times that ceaselessly demand our attention in...
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