Did William James Know Something We Don’t?
“If you want to change your life: Do it immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No excuses.”
View ArticleHow Do You Know When a New Life Story Begins?
Sometimes you plan for new life stories, carefully laying the groundwork, planning, getting information, journaling possible new futures, visualizing, taking it step-by-step. Sometimes a new life story...
View ArticleAnd In A Moment, Everything Changes
The phone rings. It’s my sister, Charla, with news from her mammogram and other tests. Cancer. Suddenly nothing is the same. A new life story for us both as we walk this new path. I want to be with her...
View ArticleListen
“Only connect,” wrote E. M. Forster. How to be connected in a world that seems to be pushing all of us toward disconnection with stress, information overload, long work hours, and the breakdown of...
View ArticleYou Are Here
What are your most basic questions? My first question has always been “What’s going on here?” Then “What’s really going on here?” Sometimes not easy questions to answer, but important to whatever comes...
View ArticleFollow the Thread
What is the thread that leads you safely through the labyrinth of life? Once you know where you are in the great scheme of things (see previous post “You Are Here”), what is the path you follow? Is it...
View ArticleStories about Stories and Stuff, Stuff, Stuff
Don’t know about you, but my life (and life’s work? Work?) is all about stories: listening, telling, writing. I grew up in an extended family of storytellers. Stories, true life and otherwise, could...
View ArticleOne Solution for Meetings You’d Rather Not Attend
Let’s face it, some meetings are necessary, well run, even enjoyable. Others, well, you’ve surely been to some (as I have) that make you want to stick a pencil in your eye and set your hair on fire. Or...
View ArticleSomeone Will Be with You Shortly
I was lucky: my family listened to me and read to me. I waited in the front yard at dusk for the newspaper man to kick up dust on graveled Main as he threw the Kansas City Star into the yard. I’d rip...
View ArticleYesterday’s Journal Can Become Tomorrow’s Memoir
New life stories are created in many ways. Sometimes a whole new life story happens itself upon us, and we have to decide how to make the best of it. Often, we deliberately decide it’s time to change...
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