The Personal Journey

I was talking with a friend last week and he talked about moving into a new house and how strange things were happening–like dishwashers filling with water when no one had turned it on (could be a leaky pipe but I didn’t want to spoil the intrigue….) Then he joked that maybe the house was…

An update from my last post on the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, co-lead by my friend, Frank Nowell. The BCOC recently started their second season and the Rocky Mountain News had a glowing review of their concert this past weekend. Read about it here: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,2792,DRMN_54_5015927,00.html It’s nice to see that passion does equate to…

Two years ago, I spoke at the annual conference for Net Impact, an organization composed mainly of MBA students and graduate students committed to using the power of business to improve the world. Held at Columbia Business School in New York City, I met a student from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Analiza.  We struck…

I announced in my monthly ezine that I’ll soon be interviewing Daniel Pink, author of A WHOLE NEW MIND on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. (We are both alums and the Northwestern Alumni Association is sponsoring the interview.) I am reading his other book, Free Agent Nation, in preparation of the interview.…

I’m just finishing up Anne Lamott’s book, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith." A terrific book and one that another Lamott fan told me about recently when she saw reviews of Lamott books that I had written on my website. In my previous reads of her books, I was struck by her honesty.  This time…