I’ve wanted to see this place for so long. It starts with a feeling. The sun shining bright. The music. The art. The waves of heat dancing all around you…
Giving up too soon or staying too long?
There’s a particular kind of wiring in my system that seems to say: Keep going. Don’t quit. Push through. Finish what I started. Persistence is one of those qualities…
Change of scenery
There was no Sunday post last Sunday. For once, instead of sitting down to write about life, I was somewhere else living it. Being somewhere else…
The bills we keep paying
In the 1920s, psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik heard an interesting observation about restaurant waiters. They could remember complicated orders…
Why bare my soul in public every week?
Someone sent me a note last week: “Nice you can bare your soul in public every week. Is it self-therapy?” Great question, and a perfect topic for my blog…
The myth of the suffering artist
When I was young, I believed that to become a good artist, you had to know life. You had to fall in love. Lose love. Leave home. Feel lonely. Fail spectacularly…
The sentence I once swallowed
Have you heard of The Moth story? Somehow, I came across it and got hooked. True, personal stories, told out loud, by people like you and me. The Moth story…
On borrowed time
I keep hearing about people leaving us suddenly. One day they’re here, among us, and the next they’re gone. Every time I hear this, my heart stops for a long…
What keeps you circling in place?
I grew up with a Romanian saying: “Ai carte, ai parte.” Roughly translated, it means: “If you have education, you have a better life.” Or, as my father kept…
When the system shakes us
I was reading about business resilience this week and my mind kept making connections… Business resilience is the ability of a business to withstand…