The Personal Journey

Bad news seems to travel in packs, like wild dogs that leap out from the bushes of my consciousness with only a slight wimpering to warn me. Right before Christmas, I heard from a sister-in-law that her mother had had a heart attack. Right after Christmas, I heard from another sister-in-law that her father had…

The wonderful thing about blogs is that as a writer, I finally have a place to publish my short musings, those fragments of thoughts that haven’t amounted to much except another short word file on my laptop. So here’s one that I just remembered I wrote, over a year ago. The memory of this musing…

I’ve been thinking about the phrase, "meeting people where they are at." It comes up with my clients. It came up in a workshop I took this past weekend with pioneers in the psychology world. I have a hard time working with people who have a limited capacity to grasp new ideas. Okay, I’ll be…

The first line of the email said it all: "As you know, starting this orchestra has been a dream of mine for over 10 years!" It was from a friend and coaching client of mine, Frank Nowell, personally inviting me to his debut concert as conductor and artistic director of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of…

The aftermath of Katrina continues to unfold. I have forgotten if this is week 3 or 4. The stories have shifted in tone from “how could this happen?” to “what happened?” to “who screwed up?” to “what will we do next?” In this stage, the news media has settled into a calmer analysis of the…