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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 [...]

I’m so angry I just want to tell him off… can you believe he had the nerve to… after all I’ve done… how could he…? Righteous indignation.  There’s nothing like it.  It gives us permission to [...]

I have a drawer, and I bet you do too.  It may be in your kitchen, desk, toolbox or dresser.  That space you mean to clean out and/or organize, but never quite get around to it.  Even you [...]

Is there someone who irritates you?  Who gets on your last nerve?  The one you least want to talk to at an office party or family gathering?  The one you find any excuse to cut short, lest you [...]

Eighteen years ago this month, my house burned down.  It was the house I had bought after my divorce.  Only ten days before, I had finally moved all my possessions into the house.  But in one [...]

I love being a Southerner.  I grew up with a tradition of hospitality. How nice.  That would be lovely. Aren’t you thoughtful to ask. We’d love to see you when we’re back visiting. There is [...]

Jason, a bright and creative 40 something, faced two attractive business opportunities.  Both have risk.  Both demand time and energy.  Both offer significant but not guaranteed financial [...]

Don’t let the bastards grind you down. This Latin phrase, popularized during WWII, always draws chuckles and after the chuckle, the head nodding.  Yep good advice, I gotta remember that. But [...]

A generation of older Baby Boomers grew up watching Davy Crockett, the homespun Tennessee backwoodsman.  Mighty feats of daring were attributed to him and no small number of inspiring quotations [...]