After A Motorcycle Crash In A Foreign Country, A Lesson On Showing Up For Others (And Yourself)
Two weeks ago, our son, David, began his six-week trip in Asia with several of his friends. He’d been working full time for over two years, and had been planning […]
The Beauty Of Springtime Is The Reward Of A Patient S Curve
April’s come and gone, we’re in the thick of May, and I’ll bet there are a lot of folks who don’t know we just missed National Poetry Month. It’s easy […]
Finding Reasons To Laugh This April (Because It’s Good For You)
It’s tough to nail down a single origin story for April Fool’s Day – some point to a line in The Canterbury Tales, others pore through ancient manuscripts for references […]
If You Want To Root Yourself, Learn From The Great Oak Of Boxerwood
A couple of weeks ago, a monstrous oak tree – estimated to have lived around 150 years – ripped free of the ground near where I live in Virginia and […]
How To Better Embrace The Belief That We Have Something Worth Saying
For this month’s newsletter, I wanted to expand on an idea from last month – about the privilege of writing. When we write anything, whether a novel or an end-of-week […]
Five Tips On Writing A Book That Will Grow Your Readers – And You
The other day, a first-time author asked me for advice about writing a book. They caught me in an especially reflective mood, so I shared with them the following pointers, […]
Breathe and Receive
If you celebrate a year-end holiday, I wish you a happy one. If you observe the winter solstice and its promise of longer days and warmer weather to come, I […]
It’s Good to Be a Little Pinched and Hampered for the Holidays
“If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, then we are not giving enough.” Charles Dickens I have long loved this quote from the great British novelist. […]
Coaching for the Win
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” Bill Gates Last week, my co-founder, Amy Humble, and I spent a day and a half with a coach being […]
