Forgive the Guy You Don’t Like One of the best things about growing up shy is that I became an observer. I watch people and the patterns in our behavior. Yeah, I watch myself too. Sometimes we do … [Read more...]

Seeing What’s Inside Every year at Christmas, my mother had her own tradition. She began buying gifts and wrapping them long before other folks even thought of such things. It was efficient. It … [Read more...]

Head, Heart, and Meaning! I arrived home from nine day journey, thinking about all of the ways we move forward and around in our lives. Some ways are reflective, slow, and private. Some take … [Read more...]

Play Grownups My son, at age 5, used to sit at a little table on landing that overlooked our dining room. He called it his office, and his office had rules. Like any good office manager, he wrote … [Read more...]

Renewable Resources This morning I was writing the sentence, “Time is our truly unrenewable resource,” when a Twhirl update popped up in the corner of my screen. I was hard not think about the … [Read more...]

March to Your Own Drummer When I was a child, people said I marched to a different drummer. It was said with a bit of love and a forgiving smile. The implication of such a condition was a sad … [Read more...]

Feel Rich and Appreciated When I lived in Austin, I worked for a company that had a strict matrix for how merit performance increases were allowed. To say that in plain English, in an effort to … [Read more...]

It’s a Problem I’ve been looking at the problems I’ve faced down, moved around, and crawled over. Something stands out as more interesting than their causes or how they were solved. Every time a … [Read more...]

Visual Stimulation Every year in publishing, the push for sales conference was brutal. My birthday was for most of my coworkers a “drop dead date.” The focus, the hours, the living, breathing … [Read more...]

See the Joy of Learning! Ah, how we’re all waiting for spring time. I remember how I used to wait to break out my bike for that first bike ride. Even before the streets were quite clean and … [Read more...]