The Tipping Point of Resolve
What is the magic of January first? People invest it with such power. The attraction of the clean slate. The leaving everything behind and starting fresh. My resolution is…I firmly resolve…this time I will get it right…starting tomorrow. Why wait? Why not start right now? I’ve worked with people who have made all the usual […]
Navigating the Neutral Zone
How do you come to the table? the decision table, that is. A person I respect offered, “Come to the table with your contribution but not with your mind made up.” Such good advice, if you can pull it off. My problem is…I am a leaner. I am not sure I am ever neutral. I come with […]
Mental illness and brain injury: not just sick in the head
What a national conversation we’re now having. Around an issue very close to home. Illness of the mental variety. We’re afraid of it, because we can’t see it, can’t touch it, can’t manipulate it to see where it hurts – like the other illnesses we’re used to. We are a nation of fixers. If something […]
Perhaps I am bi-polar by design?
Who am I? Am I a health and fitness professional who likes to write? Or am I a writer who likes to be healthy and fit? One day I’m one; the next day I am the other. Can’t I just “arrive” already? Today’s answer is no. Every time I land in one camp I am […]
What is so compelling about Twilight?
I have a confession to make. Just to buck the whole rush-around-during-Advent business I ducked into a movie theater last week. Took myself to the last Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, part 2. No academy award winning acting there, but I love a great story. I felt a bit guilty taking a couple hours off when […]
Writing it up wraps it up
You make the hypothesis, design the experiment to test the hypothesis, do the experiment, make observations, record them, evaluate your results and draw conclusions. Oh yes. Then you write it up. And if you’re DaVinci, father of experimental design, you write it on any scrap of paper handy, forward or backward, left-handed. Well, I am […]
Seeing, Only Deeper
I’m just interested in stuff. In people. In things. In how things work. In how people work. In what I see and hear. What I read and find out. I guess you could call me naturally inquisitive. And what I find out, I write down. I take note (s). This is funny because I don’t see […]
Ironing out the wrinkles
I know it’s old fashioned, but I iron. That’s not nearly as old fashioned as the linen napkins I just finished ironing. The Thanksgiving napkins. We’ll probably use them for Christmas, too. They’re special occasion napkins. I realized as I was ironing that I love those linen napkins. They’re each monogrammed with a script “R” […]
Benefit of the Backspace
It’s amazing how saying less means so much more.
Crying foul in a fair game
From our earliest days, the injustice of getting less when someone else gets more stings. What if our eternal future rest on whether we can let this go?