My Favorite Postal Worker

My Favorite Postal Worker

Beyond normal expectations With exuberance, enthusiasm, and a touch of light-hearted humor, he greets each customer. Helping them with their postal needs, his energy is contagious. And even a bit baffling. It’s the post office. This is not exciting work. But, he makes...
Meet Fear With Love

Meet Fear With Love

An Unlikely Source of Energy Fears. We all have them. Fears of… Starting the conversation Tackling the project Making the call Admitting the problem So what do you do? Meet your fear with love. Seriously. Think about your fear. Then smother it with love. Taking...
Inbox Time Capsules

Inbox Time Capsules

Emails from the Past Today, I cleaned out some of my email inboxes. It was as if I were opening a time capsule. I suppose in some ways, I was. Most poignant were emails from three friends, now deceased. These were difficult to delete, and in fact, I saved some of...
A Litany of Unexpected Blessings

A Litany of Unexpected Blessings

-Excerpt from my new book, Thrive Anyway Kathy and I awoke on the first day of the 2014 Myositis National Conference in Reno, Nevada to find hundreds of hot air balloons outside our hotel window. Unexpected Blessing #1. On a whim three days later, we rented an...
Keep Going!

Keep Going!

Life Lessons from Super Bowl LI Down 28-3 in the 3rd quarter, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots rattled off 31 unlikely points to defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28. Expecting good entertainment from the commercials and the halftime show, I received unexpected life...