The Summer of Our (Dis)Content
Well, we’re a full week into summer.
Hitched to The Universe
I was sitting at my kitchen counter working the other day and as I was trying to sort out a problem I found myself staring out my kitchen windows at the trees in my backyard. It suddenly struck me...
It Happens Here
On Friday there was yet another school shooting, this time at a middle school. A teacher and a student were both shot by a young middle school boy. It would have been much worse if it weren’t for the...
Transitions
This is my kids’ last week of school before summer break begins. And for my daughter, a fourth grader, it’s her last week in elementary school—her last week in the school she’s attended since...
The Hard and The Beautiful
One thing I now understand to be true. As you get older, life gets harder. Meaning, the hard stuff happens. And there is harder stuff to worry about. And there are hard decisions to make. The kind of...
To Write or Not to Write
So I missed writing last week (again) because of a booked up week of west coast travels. I was about to miss today (again) because of a red-eye flight that got me in this morning, another training,...
Open Doors
Exotic
Humans, Together
So, I missed posting last week. I missed posting because a family situation arose… something that most of you with young children have probably had to deal with at one point or another, and which...
What Is
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that...
Plans. And The Weather. Oh, And The Sky
My six-year-old son is a big fan of racing, so in the past year I’ve tried to take him as many different styles of races as I can find—NASCAR, Indy Car, airplane, dragster, Monster Truck…