Unedited Optimism: 2022 Year in Review

Unedited Optimism: 2022 Year in Review

Unedited Optimism: 2022 2022 Year in Review, The Real Deal   This has been a year of great triumphs and deep, penetrating stresses. It’s not critical that you know any of my details, but I do find it important that we acknowledge our unedited lives so we can...
The Thinking Process: Solo or Group Activity?

The Thinking Process: Solo or Group Activity?

The Thinking Process: Solo or Group Activity? Seek Others or Go Within   What are you like when you are dealing with a real crisis? Do you talk it through with your friends? Post on social? Or do you close in? Get insular, get very quiet? Internal processors and...
Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble

Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble

Brewing Up a Relationship that Actually Meets Your Needs Long before Oprah or The Secret, my mother told me that if you can say it out loud, you can have it. I used to think that was too simple. Say what you want and get it? Anything? All the relationship gurus will...
Home for Christmas, 2020-Style

Home for Christmas, 2020-Style

Holiday Season 2020: A Whisper of a Place I’ve Been Before; A Reminder of What’s Important A Whole New Meaning to “Home for Christmas” A Covid-encumbered Christmas season reminds me a lot of the year I lost my job at a big law firm. I was two years out of...