2016-03-19 18:53
How does change affect us? How do we change ourselves? How do we change the world?Time, time and again time. It changes us, and because we've changed, the world changes.I know, it sounds nai… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
The Pagan New Year has passed, but that doesn't mean that we're done with the horror of bad storytelling that plagues us every year.I just got cable, and I have to ask: What's with all those… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Cell phones and email have made us all accessible, even when we're thousands of miles apart. Cars and planes shoot us towards each other, past each other, into each other. We're instantly co… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Somehow I'm really good at rising to the adrenaline high of the crisis, but when the crisis passes, I'm too tired to celebrate my successes.Take now, for instance. I had to move -- immediate… Read More
2005-10-05 15:34
It always seems that whenever I make grand plans, they suddenly transform in painful, impossible and wonderful ways! It's as if there's a witty, charming, utterly disruptive force in the uni… Read More
2005-09-15 15:49
OK, most of us have heard this paraphrased fable from the recovery movement: I'm walking down the street, and there is a hole, and I don't see it, and fall into it. It takes a long time to… Read More
2005-09-14 15:54
I returned from a long, transformational, tiring and exhilarating trip to China recently to discover that my greatest fear had come true: I had to move, immediately, out of the little house… Read More
2005-08-24 01:30
Knowing What We Know may be a particularly American trait. We pop into Knowing What We Know whenever we meet something entirely unfamiliar. Then, zing! We Know What We Know. You know?It's li… Read More
2005-08-22 03:39
Silence is so infrequently golden. Even if we're quiet when the old adage says we should be -- when we can preserve dignity, power and influence -- it's really only mostly tarnished silver… Read More
2005-08-16 23:03
Those of us who take risks, make demands on the world, ask "too many" questions, or are simply deeply expressive, we hear it all the time. The call to "Grow UP!"What does it mean, really?Som… Read More
2005-08-13 05:06
On my second trip to China, I've rediscovered the greatest secret of all, the secret that life keeps reminding me to remember -- question every assumption, look behind every rule.On my first… Read More
2005-08-07 14:25
For those of us who surf the net with some regularity, there is a constant barrage of announcements that we have won great things -- free gas for a year, free pet food for a year, a free lap… Read More
2005-08-03 20:43
Step One: Join the GymStep Two: Go for a little while, complain, drop out, then drop back in, and complain again.Step Three: Ask a personal trainer for advice, and begin to "get it."Yes, Sie… Read More
2005-08-01 17:52
Nothing if not persistent (read masochistic), I got back up on the exercise machine horse this morning and zombie walked my way to - well, to nowhere in particular. I tried the classic gambi… Read More
2005-07-30 20:18
For all of you bona fide exercise lovers out there, I ask you --How did you get that way? What twist of aesthetic perversion helped you become comfortable with the bleeping, pounding and TV… Read More
2005-07-26 14:12
Every coach eventually gets down to talking about time management -- scheduling, getting tasks done, keeping your appointments with yourself, breaking your big task into smaller, calendared… Read More
2005-07-23 18:33
I just finished watching Born Into Brothels, the academy award winning documentary about children in Calcutta's brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski. Rent it from Netflix (or wherever… Read More
2005-07-20 13:29
I've written on snags and lies and distractions,Better and worse and indifferent actions,Greased wheels and squeaky wheels, flat tires and full,Places for pushing and moments to pull.But I w… Read More
2005-07-18 17:30
You're in a relationship, and there's something little that's really bothering you. You decide to keep quiet about it because it's easier, and "you really can't change it anyway..."You have… Read More
2005-07-16 15:45
It always takes less time to clean up the clutter than it does to think about cleaning it up.I hate that. No one is immune to this fact of nature. It's exactly what our mothers have been tr… Read More
2005-07-14 14:51
The previews were decisive. "Mutiny in Hell's Kitchen!" Jimmy walks out, and it looks like others might as well. There is joy in mudville -- mighty Jimmy has stood up! Reality TV may have to… Read More
2005-07-13 21:00
It's easy to romanticize individualism and the passionate embrace of new possibility. After all, it's exciting to be part of creating new paradigms, and even more exciting to feel that manif… Read More
2005-07-11 22:22
2005-07-11 03:08
OK, I confess I have a deep love hate relationship with TV. I watch the reality TV, the unreality TV, the "ripped from the headlines" lawodramas, the children's tradingcard-toons and an occa… Read More
2005-07-08 13:22
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”–Bill CosbySomething to remember when someone fixes you with a beady eye and t… Read More
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