Know your best
The best car is a teal Bug convertible.The best scooter is a teal Vespa.The best color is, well, teal.The best pasta sauce is Rao’s marinara.The best jeweler is Tony Malmed at Spirit of the Earth in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And Johan van Aswegen. These are the best stuffed creatures …
Erase hate
"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." – Anne Lamott Hate has a long tail. It is an emotional state with a deep history, an irrational and sad one. I will long …
Send leaves
“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” -Theodore M. Hesburgh Only when we get to a certain age can we begin to see patterns in our lives, those choices made and not made, just as we have to be a …
Find your talent, what you were born to do, what is yours to do…
As this young man has finally done. I promise not to post talent show videos endlessly, but when this one came across my desk this evening, I had to pass it on or at the very least post it so I could listen to it every morning for a while…. …
Go see the tiny Ninjas
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein We both felt a little ill, slightly nauseous, with grumbling, roiling tummies and headaches that make you pay attention and not …
Wear your stuff
Today, the mailman dodged the remains of Tess’ pirate birthday party (how on earth is she 4 already?) and walked the pirate plank to the porch to deliver an electric bill, 2 Visa card applications, a reminder to donate blood, a New Yorker, a Sun magazine, a note from a …
Tell me a joke…
In July, I’ll leave to teach at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon, for several weeks. I’ll teach three courses there this summer with three amazing colleagues: Humor and Play as Intercultural Tools, Training at the Edge: Experiential Tools for Intercultural Learning, and Using Storytelling to Lead …
Take a break. Watch art.
Women. Art. Women in art. 500 years of female portraits in Western art. Take a break. Make a cup of tea. Watch, listen, enjoy. Just because you can?
