Editor, Writer, Writing Coach
Who ever imagined that Times Square in the Big Apple would empty into a ghost town or the streets of Toronto would clear like smoke? Shuffling behind Asia, we’ve surrendered our Starbucks ritual, vacations, graduations, and worship gatherings. And in so doing, we’ve torn from the social fabric of our humanity: community.
>> The Present Crisis: Life Down To Its Essence
Praising kids for being smart often backfires, straitjacketing them to fear of failure.
>> Greatness: Praise, Smarts, and the Myth of Self-Esteem
The most powerful novels that stay with me long after I close them sound the echo of steps not taken by characters who’d had a choice. Because that is life. Able to choose only one moment in time, we forgo competing realities, sometimes let go the dreams that chase us.
>> The Path You Might Have Taken
My men forgive me when life is joy and joy is skin & sweat / bloodhounds circling the promises of woman. >> Happiness
My husband is aging like wine. Me? I’m the milk that’s been sitting out.
>> Men and Women: Another Difference, Part 2
A dream to me feels like a painstaking tapestry of priceless minutes I thread here, braid there, working my way around this giant rock I resent that’s the stuff of life.
>> Your Place in the Virtual Revolution
But beauty dances in the pageantry of the sunset and of the cosmos (who said Jupiter had to be so beautiful??), in the languages of men. Beauty wasn’t an artful afterthought to this world. It obligates itself upon us.
>> The Obligation of Beauty
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