With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, thoughts may veer toward personal relationships. I’d like to suggest you think of a different kind of relationship — your work. More specifically, are you happy in it? On a scale of 1 – 10, with 1 being the thought...
This post concludes the three-part series on friendship. If you missed last week’s post, you can read it here. Once upon a time there was a pair of Gulf sturgeons who lived in the Mississippi River. As fish friendships go, these two were the best of buds — think Nemo...
This post continues the three-part series on friendship — how to ruin it and what to do to save it. If you missed last week’s post, it was about the danger of applying one’s perspective of “right versus wrong” on another person’s life and how important it is to...
Part I in a three-part series One of my favorite books of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. When I was growing up, I would read it every summer. As an adult, I read it to my kids. I’m thinking about the book now—specifically a famous reference Ms. Lee...
I first learned this core truth about mixed messages from an amazing therapist who I visited for a time after a nasty divorce. If I’d only knew this all along, I’m sure it would have saved me from a lot of wasted time and heartache. The truth about mixed messages?...
In the last two days, the topic of understanding one’s preferred love language randomly came up three times while talking about Mother’s Day. First, it came up with a contractor, then my physical therapist, and finally with my friend and neighbor. When things show up...
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