My Catch, Your Ball
We have opportunities every day to interact with people and to make a difference in their day. Sometimes hitting a home run is more about seizing the opportunity to make someone else’s day better. Are we taking the opportunities in our daily lives to hit a home run?
I Could “Design” a Landing
Some of the best “work with me” scenarios happen spontaneously out of necessity.
Tangled Hair
Mundane doesn’t mean meaningless and put on the back burner. Mundane matters.
Layla is a Star
I like eggs. I like them fried, scrambled, poached, over easy, in Eggs Benedict but I like them best soft boiled–6 minutes in a rolling boil then into the egg cup, off with their metaphorical “heads” and into the perfectly soft yolk with some well buttered toast–sliced in narrow strips in what the British call […]
Shoeless and Famous
Most people who follow jazz music and its history will acknowledge that Billie Holiday is one of the greats. She had a smoky, pleading, almost heart-breaking style of singing. Not surprising when you know how difficult both her childhood and adult life would be. The pain of her life became the pain in her voice. […]
Connection Cures Contention
If you’re like many of us not long after you woke up this morning you checked your phone or laptop, asked Alexa or Siri to bring you up to speed on the weather and key news for the day. And you found “contention” – problems, great and small, in full flame or about to burst into flame. […]
Building “WITH” Spaces
For the last few decades I’ve written books, in my own name and with/for others that addressed a simple problem in how we live our lives or run our businesses. This book is different. First of all its not about “a problem” but something I believe many would agree is “THE problem” of this time in […]
Shoulder to Shoulder and Book by Book
As reported in a recent online article on www.npr.org sometimes the best way to move, especially if you’re having to move because you can’t afford to be where you are, lies in moving for free–since you’re already run out of money. October Books, in Southampton, England, had been at their location since 1977. As a […]
Flipping for Friendship
A few weeks ago, my wife’s social media feed included a short video of a group of tiny turtles rushing to the aid of one of their buddies who’d flipped onto his back and couldn’t get right-sided. Not only was the video both fascinating and heart-warming (they got their buddy back on her feet), but […]
Soda in a Milk Jug
The global pandemic of 2020-2022 cost millions of people their lives, their health and their futures. For those who survived or escaped the direct ravages of the disease, suffering came in other forms. For small business owners all over the world with most, if not all, of their customers in lockdown, their business traffic evaporated […]
