"Follow Your Bliss." But HOW?
Let’s be honest. Life is good, bad, fun, terrible, beautiful and painful. Filmmaker Patrick Solomon reports he “struggled with hardship, suffered defeats…and tried to make sense of [his] world.” Seein

posted 8:36:46pm May. 22, 2013 | read full post »

A Dark Place: 3 Steps to Blue Sky Again
I fill my large Einstein Bagel coffee cup with vanilla hazelnut. The woman next to me mumbles, “I should know never to book anything before 10:00 o’clock on a Monday morning.” She explained she got

posted 7:19:48pm May. 20, 2013 | read full post »

A Shoe Cobbler and a Prisoner Show How to Live Today
Henry Linder is a 93-year-old shoe cobbler in a tiny town in the Carolinas. He’s an internet sensation right now, even though he doesn’t own a computer. Erik Olsen’s documentary on Henry just won first place

posted 5:06:24pm May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Oprah and Brene Brown: "Let the Spirit Flow"
In a funk, I picked up O Magazine. Inside Oprah interviewed Dr. Brené Brown, Houston sociologist famous for her research on shame and vulnerability. I had viewed her TED talks. Even read Dr. Brown’s lat

posted 2:08:54pm May. 15, 2013 | read full post »

What We Are Made For ~ and Not
As he steered his Lexus 430 SC onto the freeway in early morning traffic, John kicked himself. Why do I feel so…flat? He had finally achieved the stability for which he worked so hard--a good job with a profitable company, a new sports car, a steady girlfriend, bills paid…he even had the quic

posted 5:26:30pm May. 10, 2013 | read full post »