What Makes You Angry?

Something wonderful is happening with my work on A Bigger Voice, the social entrepreneur venture that helps innovators with remarkable wisdom create stunning results and sustainability. This week, I got angry. And frustrated. And impatient. I was angry because I saw the arrogance that comes with top down thinking and insularity. When I know the…

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Remind Me When I Get To Maui

A relatively new reader to this blog emailed about finding the archive of older posts on this blog, from three years ago: "I was fascinated by the posts because the "voice" of those posts is very different from the "voice" of newer posts. Not different in a bad/good/value-assigning way–it was just evident that time and…

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Jet Lag, Part 2

In my posting titled Jet Lag, I talked about catching up your beliefs, behaviors, and mindset to who you are today. The same type of "jet lag" can happen with catching up to who others are now. For the last few years, I’ve been struggling with jet lag when it comes to my sons, as…

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The Grace of Tony’s Mom

Yesterday was the start of a three-day weekend, yet my 13-year old son was glum. My husband had asked me to talk to our son, after getting a face that was ready to burst into tears when discussing of all things, a birthday party. I found him in his room, playing an online game with…

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When One Door Closes, Another Opens

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that railroads are doing well, partly because with the rise in gas prices, they’re looking like a better and better alternative to trucking. In any economy, there are winners and losers. After 9/11, security-related companies did well. Now it’s railroads. Business is also up for therapists who serve Wall…

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