3 questions from late night red lights -Part 1
My father got to grade nine before he had to quit school to get a job to contribute to his families much needed revenue. At the time,...
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- Mar 17, 2020
- 6 min
Natural selection
Darwin’s vison of the evolution of a species has always been of fascination and inspiration to me. To oversimplify his life’s work I...
- Mar 11, 2020
- 5 min
Tourist Trap!
Light of Dawn Recently while on vacation, a woman looked over my way and waded across the pool. I panicked. My first thought was “uh oh!...
- Jan 12, 2020
- 5 min
What I learned from designing women’s shoes about manifesting desires.
Early in my career I worked with my father in the creation of women’s fashion footwear. I started that journey in Florence, Italy, where...
- Dec 19, 2019
- 2 min
How to get through the scary, painful disturbances.
“Mindfulness is the handbrake for thoughtless behaviour” In some of my previous posts, I have written about the benefits of actually...
- Nov 10, 2019
- 3 min
Remembrance
Light at the edge of darkness When I forget that I am but one seven billionth of my species on the planet that life itself has existed...
- Oct 15, 2019
- 4 min
Graceland
“There is a girl in New York City Who calls herself the human trampoline And sometimes when I’m falling, flying Or tumbling in turmoil I...
- Oct 3, 2019
- 4 min
What did “HE” do next ?
I remember as a kid we were inspired by a “Voice Over” style of TV show where the Narrator seems to be watching the same story unfold...
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
Even Superman has Kryptonite
My mother had a little quote on the wall that may have contributed to my restless identification of what is missing/wrong. “When you’re...
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
The latest fashion in the Blame Game…
Dame Anna Wintour DBE is a British-American journalist and editor who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988 and artistic director...
- Sep 3, 2019
- 3 min
Light defined from darkness owned.
I recently watched a LinkedIn video discussing failure as a learning opportunity. The challenge with failure is that it can really sting…...
- Sep 1, 2019
- 4 min
The Drunk and the Spiritual Capitalist
I have a friend who is a drunk. Even though it’s been a very long time since his last drink, that’s how he refers to himself. One day I...
- Aug 30, 2019
- 3 min
High school dances and life lessons in negotiation.
When I was growing up one of my closer friends suddenly lost his father. It really rattled me at the time, because his dad was really...
- Aug 28, 2019
- 4 min
Leveraging the vulnerability of what we have yet to learn.
Remember the Wide World of Sports? It was on Saturday afternoons on ABC, in the days when you actually had to sit down in front of a box...
- Aug 24, 2019
- 6 min
The pain in the ass that sent me on a Caribbean Vacay
Until I change the way I look at things, the things I look at will not change At various points in my career I have been fortunate to...
- Aug 19, 2019
- 3 min
What doesn’t kill us …hurts!
The idea of emotions colliding with the physical self is nothing new. It is often said that the greatest influence on the onset of...
- Aug 10, 2019
- 3 min
Mad Men at work
In a recent LinkedIn post this Simon Sinek short video on how to express emotion had close to a half million views, and tens of thousands...
- Aug 9, 2019
- 4 min
2 Loves
My Father was known for saying “I have had 2 loves in my life- my shoe factory and my family – and not in that order“ I guess he said it...
- Aug 4, 2019
- 3 min
Anticipointment
A while ago I spoke of a cousin who realized a dream by writing and directing a great film titled “Moments Of Clarity“. Check it out!...
- Aug 2, 2019
- 2 min
Renovating A Burning Building
The thing about making a better past is that it is really hard to accomplish with your hands full. When your house is on fire the primary...
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