Like pretty much everyone, Dolly Parton’s passing touched me in ways I hadn’t anticipated.
Unique and utterly irreplaceable, she unsurprisingly topped a recent national favorability poll, scoring more than 50 points higher than every politician and pop star surveyed.
Story after story focus...
This shouldn’t be happening.
At least, that’s what I kept thinking.
Yet after the third failure — and after I’d even called the clerk over to the self-checkout lane — it became obvious that something was seriously amiss.
Even though I’d come straight from the bank, where I’d successfully made...
Sometimes when the story you’re telling is too complicated, you really do need a break.
In my case, the story I was telling was in a screenplay, one I’m writing for an independent producer.
And it had indeed become WAY too dense — multi-layered, in fact — including a “movie within a movie” ...
Every important relationship can be marked with firsts.
Things like first meeting.
First date. First kiss.
And, of course, there’s also first fight.
I had mine this week — with a lot of weirdness — on my first day of Harvard Business School’s Foundry program, bizarrely with a Terminator-l...
I’m about to become the villain in someone else’s story.
More accurately, I think there’s a 97% probability of that happening — not when I pull the proverbial trigger, but when I press SEND on the email I’ve been holding off on.
Fortunately, I’ve been helped by this month’s theme: Fear...
As always, Vlad — and Marcus Aurelius — lead the way.
I’m fond of quoting this line from Robert Frost:
“The best way out is always through.”
Yet sometimes it’s not…
Sometimes it takes a Roman emperor to remind me otherwise:
“The impediment to action advances ac...
It may not just be the Mercury retrograde that’s thrown me off course.
The theme I’m exploring this month — Getting in the Reps; Meditation HERE — has provoked a lot of stories.
In particular, I’ve been remembering two friends from a lifetime ago who were — rather ironic...
