Listen to the Quiet
Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
While more people seem constantly "plugged-in" to tunes or phone, we welcome this bit of news. Delta Airlines offers noise-canceling headphones to Business Elite passengers. (Can we who fly steerage be far behind?) What is it about quiet--it's either deafeningly lonely or blessedly welcome. Writer Edward Carpenter wrote, "Let your mind be quiet, realizing more»
Breakfast in Bed
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Even though I'm not a big fan of the practice, it came to mind as the perfect image of being treated like a queen. Someone else is attending to your needs--someone else is making sure everything is just right. Is that the royal treatment? How do we get or give it? Is it indolence? Being waited upon? Having your needs attended to? Other images then came to more»
Bee Like Wooden
Published: Friday, September 16, 2011
John Wooden is known as one of the greatest athletic coaches of all time. His teams knew how to win, and he knew something about the good life. When he was 12 years old, his father gave him a piece of paper on which were written seven principles for life. Motivational speaker Pat Williams wrote a book on Wooden’s seven principles and believes living more»
The Good Life
Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Linger in the twilight. Autumn beckons us to cling to its beauty. Let’s not hurry it along. Here’s a tool to use in gaining a moment in our frenetic lives: Take the advice of the washing machine — push pause before spin. Pushing pause resets our computer. Pushing pause reminds us that there’s more to life than the next task. This season, more»
Good Year, Bad Year
Published: Friday, December 31, 2010
It's all a matter of focus
Change the World
Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Objectivity the holy grail of every aspiring journalist when I learned the craft has been a lost goal. It pains me to witness the stream of negativity overwhelming daily accounts of the day’s activities. Yet I watch and listen—news having been part of my daily life for enough years that it’s tough to let go. And it’s not that I’m more»
Enjoy Today
Published: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Quit worrying- get living.
Say what, Grammys?
Published: Monday, December 6, 2010
It's not that I never learned to use bad language. I confess the use of blue words has always come easily to me. For this I am not proud. But hearing that one of the Grammy nominated songs is titled FU (the entire phrase not these initials), one can only wonder. Can we continue to tolerate the rising tide of courseness and not demand any more more»
