NOTE: This entry was supposed to post on December 31, but for some reason failed to do so. Hopefully, it is working now! However, please read the following with the idea that I was talking about December 31! Thank you! Another year has come to an end! I am amazed at how quickly it has [...]

NOTE: This entry was supposed to post on December 28, but for some reason failed to do so. Hopefully, it is working now! However, please read the following with the idea that I was talking about December 28! Thank you! I just returned home after a 10-day trip away. Part of the trip was for [...]

Today’s blog post will be short because I’m spending time with my loved ones, and I hope you are doing the same (instead of spending time reading this blog!). For the past 12 years, I have been spending these few days at the end of December with my brother and his family in North Carolina. [...]

Yesterday was my birthday. When I look at the number of years I have been alive on this planet, I am amazed. So much change has happened during my lifetime! So many things about my life are so different than I ever imagined growing up. Like now I couldn’t imagine my life without my computer [...]

Since the beginning of December I have been taking time each day to do a morning meditation. I use this practice to get focused and calm and centered. I do it in the morning because it helps my day go better. I get more done. I feel better about everything. And sometimes I get pieces [...]

I have been working now for a while at getting a business started, my new source of livelihood. It is a coaching business, where I schedule paid coaching sessions with people who need my help. My best work is with people who need clarity about something in their lives – a direction, a decision, a [...]

I started writing a blog entry today about feeling like I’ve been caught in an avalanche sometimes. It seemed like a good metaphor for those days when I think I’ve got things under control and then a dozen new challenges appear in my life. I thought maybe I could extend the metaphor by looking up [...]

It is Pearl Harbor Day. Sixty-eight years ago today, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack and resulted in over 2200 lives being lost. The September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. have been compared to this first significant modern-day attack on the United States. [...]

It’s hard to believe that this is the last month in 2009! And that in one more month, I will have officially resided in San Francisco for a full year! When I decided to move here, I had to confront a lot of personal inertia. I had lived in Cincinnati for over 20 years. I [...]