Award-winning short about love, time and unicorns
Every once in a while, my dad sends me some really great tips. Here’s a feel good three-minute award-winning short to start your week. Bottom line: It’s never too late to be kind.
Every once in a while, my dad sends me some really great tips. Here’s a feel good three-minute award-winning short to start your week. Bottom line: It’s never too late to be kind.
No other time of the year is quite as remarkable as your birthday. It’s the anniversary of your coming into full being on the planet. If that’s not reason to celebrate! The best part is when others are joyful and congratulate you for another year […]
A visit to the mobile phone store taught me a lesson or two about what happens when you don’t know the questions to ask. After purchasing an iPhone, I was told I couldn’t change my two-year contract for another month in order to add the […]
Many thanks to @SuzanneHenry for pointing to these trends, such as de-teching and outsourcing self-control (remember my time suck Quickrr post?), to help keep us interacting with each other in the now.
Habits. They are the foundation on which our lives make sense. Or don’t. Do you know whether your habit is actually an addiction or something that raises you up? Take coffee, for instance. I stopped drinking it for almost a year, then started drinking […]
The Internet is an addictive force. Even GoogleChrome is getting in on the act by creating toolbars courtesy of Quickrr to limit the amount of time we spend on pre-determined URLs (any Angry Bird fans out there?). It seems odd to mention Quickrr on a […]
Something’s foul in the state of our schools. In her most recent episode, Katie Couric examines chronic fatigue in high school students who are buckling under the weight of academic performance on her CBS Webcast @KatieCouric. Tiger Mom might growl at this one. Vicki Abeles, […]
Boundaries ~ the line in the sand that ushers children into adulthood. When my daughter asked why she couldn’t have a mother who said ‘yes’ to everything, I said, “Because you deserve a mother who loves you.” Blank stare. Non-comprehending stance. Arms parked in a […]
Winter has Europe in its firm grip. This morning I grappled with myself about whether or not I should go to the gym. My thinking went like this: Angel side of myself: “I have a manuscript to edit. I really should work on that since […]
When I was a kid, I had a dream to become either a dancer, an actor, a writer or a peacemaker. Two out of four ain’t bad! William Ury, author of Getting to ‘Yes’ describes his experiences as a peacekeeper in conflicts ranging from former […]