When we were toddlers everything was new and exciting. Luckily (and tragically) we have since learned life’s patterns and therefore live in a relatively predictable word – […]

White Space:  Unscheduled Time

If every minute of your day involves a meeting which is back-to-back-to-back, white space is an ally you must find and embrace.  In this […]

I am a vegan – I say it loud and proud. (As all good vegans do) 

You know what I ate for dinner last night?  A big juicy […]

In a sociological experiment, seminary students were placed in a “Good Samaritan” situation.    The students were sent to a location across campus with a task.  One […]

Two carpenters, Bill and Bob, break for lunch on a steamy summer day.  They rest their bones in the shade and break open their lunch pails. Bill’s […]

Life is hard, complicated and unfair.  We agree, right?

Wrong.

Life is horribly easy.  Breathe, eat, sleep – this is life, literally.

We have all won the jackpot of the […]

The information about our world is provided to us by companies who must profit financially to survive. 

If you are not paying for a product, you are the […]

“John” harbors hateful and despicably racist beliefs but hides them under a cloak of good deeds and a graceful demeanor.

Is he a “racist”?

“Bob” spends hours plotting hypothetical […]

I don’t enjoying running.   When I do run, I must listen to music. Must.

This weekend my iPhone ran out of juice, 2.5 miles into a 5 mile […]

Here is another poem that I often find therapeutic.  Enjoy.

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Lifting heavy weights is difficult.  Not lifting heavy weights is easy.

The decision to repeatedly choose difficult over easy builds muscle.  When I see your bulging biceps, I know […]

I’ve turned to this poem during the most painful times in my life. I’d be unforgivably selfish if I didn’t share it.

If

We are often rude without knowing it.  Here is a list for your consideration  I will leave the rational behind each up to you.

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– If you compliment […]

I am grateful for having access to every person, thought, and song at my fingertips.

However, I miss:

– Getting lost while driving

– Making mixed tapes from the radio

– […]

You’ve hit a wall and you don’t know what to do next.

You’re up against the impossible.

When I’m at a restaurant with cloth napkins, I do NOT want to see the kitchen.

I want to idealize the chef’s appearance, the kitchen’s cleanliness, […]

Assume:

1. People are selfish.

2. Conversation is the exchange of information and ideas. When we speak, we give them and when we listen, we receive them.

3. Most […]

Stop saying and writing the word “very.”

You are exhausted not very tired.

She is devastated not very disappointed.

They are eccentric not very odd.

Give it a […]

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

Experiment time – I sit quietly alone with no […]

Introducing the “80 Percent Theory of Communication” …

80% isn’t horrible. […]

There are 168 hours in a week, not 169.

There are 31,560,000 seconds in a year, not 31,560,001.

Your brain has “x” neurons, not “x+1” neurons.

In the last year, […]