At a leadership workshop a few weeks back, a new friend of mine asked me if I knew what the origin of the word worry was. Being unsure yet curious, …
There’s something about waking up to music. I’m not talking about the alarm clock that jars you awake. Funnily enough, I stick with one tune to wake me up so …
There is something about waking up before the rest of the city that makes it seem much less like a city. While walking down the streets of Culver City before …
I believe that many of us humans live with an inferiority complex. We say that we’re superior to all other animals, when in fact we wish we could be like …
I had a conversation with an old roommate a few days ago. He asked me to tell him about the life of Jim and I immediately launched into how I …
I noticed in today’s headlines that Elon Musk and SpaceX are planning to land a payload on Mars in 2 years. What. Half of his news stories feature him promising …
Again, the Atlantic amazes me. This morning, I read an article entitled “How Animals Think.” Numerous times through the article, I leaned back in my chair and said, “Whoa.” I …
I can still remember the day*. I was studying at the University of Illinois and my friend Michelle and I hadn’t seen each other for quite a while. She came …
In the wake of events that continue to cause tremendous terror, I want to dissect the War on Terror from a linguistic and emotional perspective. First, we say the War …
I will be the first to admit that I spend a LOT of time freaking out about words. About making sure I put the precise label on the situation at …
Ever been in a situation where you forgot to do something, immediately felt guilty about not doing it, time passed, you still didn’t do it, you felt more and more …
“I’m sorry” –> “I forgive you.” We assume that one has to apologize first and then the other person will forgive. In my work with Emotional Self-Defense, I have discovered …
I’ll often go to a park to juggle a soccer ball. Why? Because earlier this year I remembered how two years ago I asked my mom, “What was my favorite …
The other day, I had one of those “dreaded conversations.” Ya know, the type that you know you should have but do everything in your being to deflect and avoid? …
I recently watched a documentary on Charles Schulz, the famous creator of the Peanuts comic strip (ya know, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, etc) I have been finding myself more and …
Does maybe = no or does maybe = yes? I think it depends on your math. (see, math has a place in the world) Let us set maybe = 0.5, …
Earlier this year, Nathan Ohren from JournalTalk and Write4Life reached out to ask if I wanted to participate in one of his podcast episodes. Nathan was probably the first person …