A few days ago, I began writing this blog post, for the newly recreated website —welcoming you. It was important to do it really well, so that you would like it and you would want to come back. You might like it so much that you would share it with a friend! It needed to be great. Of course, I…
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In case you haven’t heard the expression, a Blue Sky Hour is a way of referring to time spent brainstorming — fleshing out an idea or thinking about some new things to try or directions to consider. The next time you have a Blue Sky Hour, try using it to think and listen to your internal muse, and take notes…
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Do you remember “The West Wing”, the TV drama about the American presidency? A few years ago, I watched an old episode from the sixth season called “365 Days”: Leo, the Chief of Staff, calls a meeting of the team and writes 365 on a whiteboard. He challenges every member of the team to carefully consider what he or she…
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I am an artist, but I don’t make my living from my art. I am a poet, but I receive nary a droplet. I am a singer, but singing doesn’t pay my Bills Bills Bills. I am a spiritual director/retreat leader, but I don’t get paid for the privilege. I make my living as a Psychotherapist and Marriage & Family…
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Living with ambiguity is the mantra to my daily life. I was 20 years old when I first saw a card tacked up on a wall in a Heidelberg pension that read, “I must learn to live with ambiguity”. My memory tells me that my roommate, Alexa, put it there after reading it in Thornton Wilder’s, “The Skin of our…
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