Category: Personal stories

For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out how to put all the different things I do under one roof. Art. Technology. Project management. Psychology. Coaching…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I was reading about business resilience this week and my mind kept making connections… Business resilience is the ability of a business to withstand…