Imagine that you are turning onto a street, a dead-end street, a long dead-end street, that has a number of houses on each side. Now, what I'd like you to im...

As a young man growing up in a mostly rural farming environment, I was always enthralled by the things that my grandfather, father, grandmother and mother kn...

You say, “Since we will be alone for Christmas eve, I’ve made dinner reservations.” “Great,” I say. We arrive and you notice a 30’ beautiful Christmas tree i...

I was talking with a friend today, a medical doctor, who’s life as he knows it, is over. His career crushed by a system, and his reaction to it, that his pr...

Imagine deciding at age 15, you wanted to go to college. Imagine what a big deal that was because only one other person in your entire close-knit clan of 30...

“…… each represented a philosophy of life. Each committed to the death of the other. One - the “old way”– described as self-destructive, and yet it has kept ...

"Not to be afraid when you are all alone is the only true way of being not afraid" . Olga Jacoby About 40 years ago I was living through a series of reversal...

As a young teacher, in my late 20’s, our school system instituted a curriculum called “Unit Step” that, among other things, divided the subject of American H...

Two days ago, I got this letter from a person who had attended a listening workshop I conducted for the Gates Scholars Program at Cambridge University in the...

Each month, I meet with a few friends of varying backgrounds for breakfast. On my calendar it simply says, “The Boys.” One played football for Bear Bryant ...

Scene I: My long-suffering wife said to me, “I want to talk to you about your giving money away”. “Here we go again”, I thought. I immediately got quiet, w...

I was finishing up presenting an “Exquisite Listening®” communication skills workshop recently. We had just finished the last day’s series of exercises des...

“A coach is someone who shows you how to be excellent, reminds you of your excellence, and lets you know when you're being less than excellent.” John Wooden...

I was born and raised in Southern Ohio. The family farm was the centerpiece of my formative years. Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, a Great Grandmother, parent...

From the song, “When I’m 64”, by the Beatles. Ah, the Beatles, maybe they are to blame. My parents warned me about them. A friend of mine once asked me if...

That’s the question that the old Christmas carol asks. If you would, before you read any further, please go to YouTube, and bring up and watch a 90 second v...

I was talking with a friend recently and she mentioned that though she had designed every aspect of her holiday season, she felt surprisingly sad. It got me ...

I’ve been examining what got and has kept me so motivated, so agitated, so troubled over the last few years. In ways that are new for me. Big picture thing...

First, I would like to thank the people who so lovingly supported me in the ways that work best for me during my recent medical adventure. The treatments ar...

The first day we ever spoke, Edward (not his real name) and I passed by each other as I was leaving the YMCA gym and he was just arriving. He looked at me an...