Recently, while pumping gas at a Tampa mini-mart, I handed my business credit card to the attendant. The look on his face was classic, however not unique or unexpected. “What [...]
walkabout noun walk·about \ˈwȯ-kə-ˌbau̇t\ : an occasion in which an Australian Aborigine goes on a long walking journey on land that is far from towns and cities A Walkabout, as defined above by [...]
Standing on stage and staring into a crowd of faces, some I knew, most I did not, I realized I had no where else to go. I step off stage and carry that with me – relaxed yet [...]
How often do you make decisions based on what you simply seem to know, in your core, to be true? You can call it instinct, or intuition… or just your ‘gut’. Whatever it is, do [...]
When she talks, it feels like a fork scraping against a stainless steel bowl. And she’s a talker. I love our conversations, but honestly, she can be hard to listen to. And when we do [...]
“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 [...]
I don’t know exactly where I realized it. It was somewhere along the way. Definitely not while I was raising four children, working and getting my degrees. I was too busy then… I [...]
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 [...]
