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“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” When we don’t know the answer, we make it up.  If a friend doesn’t call you back right away, if someone gives you an unexpected [...]

How’s your energy today? By that, I don’t mean, “Did you eat your Wheaties?”  I hope you did… and if you didn’t, I hope you ate something of equivalent [...]

2014 was not an easy year. I would sit at my desk, fingers at my temples vainly massaging at yet another migraine, and think, “Thank God, this year is almost over.”  I would lean [...]

The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman. Zlata Filipović I went to see the Mocking Jay with my daughter last [...]

I was driving to work.  It was 7:15am on a Tuesday. I had meetings starting at 8:00am and was booked back-to-back for most of the day.  I brought my lunch but couldn’t quite figure out, [...]

You know that kind of heat: you can feel your skin actually sizzling under the sun’s blinding rays.  But you don’t notice.  You don’t notice because your toes are [...]

I can’t focus.  It’s uneven, pitchy… staccato words hitting me like a Thompson submachine gun.  I have turned my phone volume down to a low, low level to try to soften [...]

It’s very cliche to talk about the journey. We’re all on a journey.  It’s all about the journey, not the destination.  We each have our own journey.  But a [...]

Work-life integration is a rather Zen thing. Any given day consists of an incessant flow of decisions. What to eat for breakfast…? …does my son have enough lunch money…? …can we finish the [...]

Every morning, I walked into Shane’s office with two cups of coffee. I handed one across the desk and sat down for 10-15 minutes… sometimes venting about another coworker, sometimes [...]