“Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass,
it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
- Vivian Green

Last week, in my article about Elizabeth’s Edwards new book, Resilience, I shared with you the beginnings of my own journey with the diagnosis…

Elizabeth Edwards’ new memoir, Resilience, is about to be released in a few days. Her publisher, Broadway Books, says Edwards has written “an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s biggest challenges.”

If anyone is qualified to write on life’s biggest challenges,…

Today marks President Obama’s 100th day in office. By the time you read this, you will already have been showered with the press’ full-tilt boogie coverage of this occasion. And, why not?

President Obama has taken on his presidency with a fervor, reaching out to the international community to…

Happy Earth Day, 2009! OK, we did the perfunctory observance, like good citizens. Now, is it back to business as usual? Back to polluting and trashing the Earth till next April 22nd?

Since 1970 when the first Earth Day was observed, we may have become more environmentally aware, but…

This is the final installment in the series “Impossible To Inevitable: Dare To Dream Big.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. -Thoreau

Your future is being written every day between now and the end of your life. Every choice you…

“Failure sucks, but instructs.”
Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Sciences and Engineering , Stanford University.

With the world being what it is today, many people are…

This is the 7th installment of an on-going series titled, “Impossible To Inevitable: Dare To Dream Big.”

Let’s talk about the power of community in helping forward our impossible dreams.

This is a story about a group of teens that feared their futures were already being foreclosed….

Impossible To Inevitable: Dare To Dream Big – Part IV

“ What is it that makes you happy? 
Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call, ‘Following Your Bliss.’

If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a…

Impossible To Inevitable: Dare To Dream Big – Part 3

OK, it’s official! Warren Buffet said so. “We’ve fallen off a cliff”. Now what? Is that the end of the story? Do we just pull up the covers and wait to die? Or, since we’re in free fall,…

Part Two

Last week, we began an adventure together. Our intention in the coming weeks is to explore what it takes to manifest those dreams that are so big, so far out there, you can’t get your mind around them. I’m talking about the dreams…

Part One

“So many of our dreams at first seem Impossible,
then they seem Improbable,
and then when we Summon the Will,
they soon become Inevitable.”

Christopher Reeves

Newsflash: The economy is a mess!

OK, now…

Today is my 67th birthday and I’m inviting you to celebrate with me. Who knows how many more birthdays I, or any of us, will have? I hope to be around for many more, but just in case I’m not, tonight, I’m going to get all dressed up, don a…

Shift Happens!

Change, it turns out, is not a tidy process. Anyone who’s ever been through a divorce or quit their job or perhaps more commonly now, lost their job, knows that endings are often very messy and starting over can be even more difficult.

Or as…

Before you answer that question, read on. Then watch the video and come back and tell us what you think.

I hadn’t heard about this until last Saturday when a friend sent me an email with a link to the website where you’ll find the video: “Born Again American”, …

The Inauguration and Call to Service

Congratulations, America! Today, we got ourselves a new president!

Come on now, you have to admit, this is damned exciting! It’s not every day you get to witness history being made. Today we did just that.

Barack Obama took the…

Part I

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble,
there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

Last time, we began to explore the idea of the soul’s recurring requirement to descend, to…

Your response to my article on Winter Solstice a few weeks ago was heart-warming and inspiring. Thanks to those who took the time to read it and leave your thoughts.

In response to your comments, I promised to write more about the inner journey. This first post of the…

Pull up a chair and settle in while I spin a yarn about 2008. The story actually begins 20 years into the future (visualize a clock advancing rapidly) …….

It’s 11 PM on New Year’s Eve, in the year 2028. You’re sitting by a crackling fire (a fake one, of…

Solstice = Standing-Still-Sun

Dec. 21st, we enter the belly of the night.

Winter Solstice: We come to the portal that separates darkness from light. Standing in this arch of time where Earth takes a breath before facing us back towards the sun, we too, take a breath, turn…

I think Ebenezer Scrooge has gotten a bad rap long enough. This poor guy has endured nearly 200 years of negative press and it’s about time we took another look. Every Christmas, we parade him about as the iconic villain, a symbol of greed and all that is most despicable… Read Post