Fumbling with my lipstick, I glanced over at a poem hanging on my massage therapist’s bathroom wall. “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann (written in 1927; published in 1948) is a timeless poem with which many of us are familiar. Within the context of my power of […]
Recently, my friend Lissa Coffey sent me her new book, Closure. I finished reading it in Malta, but the impact of the book’s message has stayed with me. As our relationships take on new form, we often need closure. Stepping onto the plane Munich-bound, I […]
Little known fact: our human evolution has stayed roughly the same for the last 150,000 years. Your typical desktop computer changes every few months. Compared to our human reaction time, that old PC in your home office reacts 750,000,000 times faster than you. Yet we […]
In The Power of Slow, I talk a lot about the importance of communication. Today I’d like to do two things: tell a story and offer advice. The Story I always know when my husband is less than interested in what I have to say. […]
Yesterday’s talk at Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville, VA was very enlightening for me. It was a standing room only crowd with some really great questions at the end. The discussion centered around life, work, and time. While I do not believe in the term […]
Tomorrow, March 17th is not only St. Patrick’s Day. It’s also my big day at the Virginia Festival of the Book. At 4 pm, Leslie Truex and I will be discussing Work, Time and Life at Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville, VA. The discussion will […]
You’re on a blind date, and your mobile rings. It’s your best friend text-messaging you, asking how it’s going. Do you secretly answer her under the table while pretending to be intrigued by your date’s brilliance? Or you are at a job interview, and you’re […]
One of the things I learned while in Malta this week was that it is the site of the world’s oldest stone calendar. Pictured here is my own self standing in the midst of this marked beauty of limestone and light. Just in time for […]
Remember that cool car Michael J Fox drove in the movie, ‘Back to the Future’, that ultra-suave time machine that allowed him to not only look cool on screen, but also impact events in past and future? On Sunday, March 14 at 2 a.m., we’ll […]
As I was sipping my last cappucino at the Malta airport, it occurred to me why work-life balance is a concept that is at odds with itself. Work is as much a part of our lives as play. When we talk about balance, we really […]