A Shot Of Optimism

Do you love that feeling of doing for someone else?  Helping a co-worker find information?  Taking soup to an elderly neighbor?  Giving directions to someone who’s lost?  It re-enforces our [...]

This bed is too hard.  This bed is too soft.  But this bed is just right. Recently, I lost an engagement to another consultant.  Never mind that I had mixed emotions about working with the [...]

After couple of rough years – struggles at work, challenges with a child, and an unexpected financial loss, I came across a reference to American monk, Thomas Merton.  He said an essential part [...]

Last week while I was walking on the beach in Florida, a dozen pelicans flew over my head, gliding in what appeared to be an effortless V formation, banking right then left.  I had a moment of [...]

Like many of you, I travel for business.  An agenda agreed to, dates confirmed, airline tickets bought, ground transportation arranged, hotels booked, and maybe a restaurant selected.  The day [...]

Like many spiritual teachers Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest here in Nashville, recently called attention to the paradox of the Christmas rush and compared it to the original intent of Advent, [...]

Some things are complicated – really complicated.  Like how to find a path for peace in the Middle East, how to handle the tide of immigrants coming to the U.S to escape danger, or how to [...]

Were you raised hearing the adage:  When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?  It was one of my father’s favorites.  When things didn’t work out the way I hoped, he’d always remind me. But [...]

Have you ever thought I would never do that?  Or That would never happen in my family, to my child, in my business? When we see the failures of others, it’s easy to make judgments, to assign [...]

Are you having one of those days, weeks or months, where you feel like you are getting bad breaks, raw deals, unfair outcomes – things you don’t think you deserve? I just had a huge lesson in [...]