Live While You’re Alive

Live While You’re Alive

From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something...
A Crucial Shift to Prevail

A Crucial Shift to Prevail

For Those Who Lead “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end–which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,” according to Admiral Jim Stockdale. What...
Fear and Courage

Fear and Courage

For Those Who Lead “Fear and courage are not mutually exclusive,” Brene Brown articulates so precisely. You may tend to think that the courageous do not experience fear or that if you have fear, you are not courageous. But, this is not so. The difference...
Snow Walk

Snow Walk

Fresh Tracks, Fresh Start Laying down the first tracks in the falling snow in our neighborhood, my son and I savored the moment. No wind. Temperatures relatively mild, hovering right around freezing. The evening was lit up with the blanket of snow reflecting all...
The Life You May Yet Live

The Life You May Yet Live

Considering Your Next Best Step Whether you are twenty-one and on the cusp of a move or ninety-two and writing your final chapter, you are considering your next best step. For the young, life is wide open and full of possibility. But even for those with decades under...