My dad died last May and every time there is a holiday or significant date it exacerbates, fuels or reawakens the grief and sense of loss. So far we’ve had my parents’ first wedding anniversary last June, the first Thanksgiving, the first new year… And now we have his first birthday since dying, coming up…
DetailsBreak those big goals down into smaller action steps. I know, I know, it’s an old cliche, “If you don’t have a map how do you know where you are going?” Nowadays you can actually fake it with last minute Google searches or a GPS safety net. But that will only help from getting from A…
DetailsBetween Linked in, Facebook, Twitter and G-d know what other sources are available in print or online, there are experts at everything nowadays. Many an expert is self-proclaimed. But also bountiful are those with third-party credibility because there are so many “news” sources running 24 hours a day that need experts to provide “authoritative affirmation” of…
DetailsMy son just came downstairs and told me that he needs to take risks and have an adventure. He was inspired by the gang of four on Stranger Things. I found out about this Netflix series in the People Magazine that came in Friday’s mail, and now by Saturday night we’ve binge watched the entire first…
DetailsThinking about finally convincing my mom to go on a computer feels like Scarlett Johansson from Her, where (ohhh…Google Search Break, let me look up the name of the guy who played the main character…I’m back…it’s Joaquim Phoenix…) But, and you heard it here first…the first Google result for “star of Her” was an announcement…
Details“Love what you do and you will never work a day in your life.” That quote has always seemed a little “baloney-ish” to me, the purview of the privileged. Even a google search for the source of the quote suggests that it’s not really a thing. It’s attributed to both Confucius and singer Marc Anthony—how…
DetailsSome days when it’s time to write I feel like Andy McDowell in “Sex, Lies and Videotape” when she’s talking to her therapist about how sad and paralyzed she gets by reading the paper and seeing the children getting hurt on the news. That’s what it feels like waking up to the horrors of what’s happening…
DetailsForget trying to lose weight over the holidays. It’s not going to happen. But a very good goal is to not gain weight over the holidays. Well, to not gain weight but also to not miss out on fun and…OMG…holiday cookies…the most amazing treats in the world. Oh, and to be social is so much…
DetailsIt actually should seem as no surprise that Oxford Dictionary just announced that “post-truth” is its 2016 word of the year, a word it said “questions the concept of facts themselves.” Your take on the word depends on your take on the world (speaking of post-truth). Some may point to a singular source of Trump’s campaign…
DetailsI’m off to speak at a school today as part of the Black Star Project Youth Motivation Program, which has me thinking about how triply impressed I am by Tammera Homes, and how sticking to a dream and mission over the long haul yields results. I’m talking about something Tammera said 10 years ago when…
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