Unloading a Heap of Freight

I recently told a medium that I hate sounding like one of those annoying people whose ship is always coming in, but I feel like I’m on the brink of something. Here’s his response: “Your ship is already in. You need to take the freight off.” As Joey Tribbiani might...

Anatomy of a transition

GAME PLAN: First comes the shock, right? Bam. There’s change. Not change you initiated, but change that feels like it’s been foisted on you. I have come to learn for me that’s ultimately the best kind. Emphasis here on ultimately. It’s rarely clear immediately that...

What is living fully?

There are several consistent teachers in my life and Julia Cameron is definitely one of them. There is something persistently eye-opening about her work. The old stuff holds up. The new stuff gives me pause and usually more. The last weekend of 2012 I read Safe...

Writers writing

Without question, one of the things I most wanted to do when I visited Paris was sit in a cafe and write. Sure, flip through Vogue, too, but mostly journal with a cup of coffee. It’s one of the highlights of almost every day of my life, so an exotic or foreign...

A pile of Artist Dates

I didn’t attend TEDxEast in New York last week to get a Game Plan column out of it. I went to “fill my well” so to speak, to feed my soul and intellect. Well, that happened and I even wrote an Unfettered 50 blogpost about it that very night. But what...