Senator Ted Kennedy passed away last week and everyone has been writing about his life. As I was reading through all the various articles, I found a quote that was apparently one of his more famous sayings. I looked it up online to find its source and discovered it was from his 1980 Democratic National [...]

Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy passed away yesterday. According to the news articles I read, he had been a United States senator for 47 years. He was the youngest and the last of the Joseph Kennedy’s four sons. His oldest brother Joseph Jr. was killed in World War II. His next two older brothers, John and [...]

I just completed my four-day improvisational theater training intensive. It was great fun! People attended from all over the U.S. and from several other countries as well! It was more focused on actual theater work than other improvisational trainings I have taken in the past. The primary focus was on work with various scenes and [...]

Looks like the apartment hunting process is over! I have signed a contract and the move-in date is scheduled for September 2. I thought I could and I did! So one crazy process (finding and viewing potential apartments) is over and another one (moving) is about to begin. Change in life always brings a certain [...]

I’ve spent the past week looking for a new apartment. It has become clear that my box situation cannot be fully resolved without some additional space. Right now there is no place to even open them and sort through their contents. So I looked at the money I was spending on rent, added the money [...]

I have often heard that we learn more from our failures than from our successes. And I must admit that I used to think this made sense. However, research on processes like Appreciative Inquiry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appreciative_inquiry) have observed that focusing on what goes well, on what works, generates more successes, whereas focusing on mistakes and failures [...]

Life is always interesting. While on vacation in Mexico recently, I read a book entitled “Pronoia, the Antidote for Paranoia” or “How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”. The book was written by Rob Brezsny and it was exactly what I needed to be reading right now. I laughed, I cried, [...]

I received the following quote from one of my email lists yesterday. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” The quote is from Catherine Ponder, a leading [...]

I outlined my travel schedule for the rest of the year to a friend of mine. When I got finished writing it, I couldn’t believe it. And when she saw it, she couldn’t believe it either. It is a crazy patchwork of all kinds of travel – for friends, for family, for seminars and training, [...]