Creating meaningful lives

When I read in The New York Times about a proposed idea in Florida regarding higher education, all I could think was — wow, it’s like taking horribly misguided parenting and amplifying it by a lot. Let’s just say I’m not a fan of...

Shake it up, baby

Sometimes there are ideas floating around in my head and all it takes is one push from something, somewhere, to rein them all in to form a thoughtful column. This one became concrete the minute I saw an obit in The New York Times recently. Today’s Game Plan:...

More ‘Grey’ area

Here’s how a piece in The New York Times summarizes the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy: ” … the books tell the tale of a dominant-submissive affair between a manipulative millionaire and a naïve younger woman … ” The thing is,...

Express yourself

Loved seeing Cloud Gate, the sculpture at Millennium Park in Chicago, last weekend. It’s an amazing piece in scope and effect. Also loved one particular line in Mona Simpson’s eulogy of her brother, Steve Jobs, published in The New York Times on Sunday,...

More on luck

Just two days after my Game Plan column about luck went live on FoxBusiness.com, The New York Times ran a piece on the front page of the Sunday Business section called What’s Luck Got to Do with It? Essentially it’s a study-based version of my large...