In the mail

It’s very gratifying to receive meaningful feedback like this and I feel compelled to share. These are in response to today’s Game Plan column — Is Your Mind Small, Average or Great? — and came to me via email: Your average, small, or great...

A bit on humanity

An Eleanor Roosevelt quote someone posted on Facebook captured my attention recently. Then a series of social media posts about Dick Cheney’s heart transplant made me uneasy. Merge the two and add in a recent Snooki moment at the laundromat and a column was...

The illusion of control

I suppose today I needed to be in control of something. And that’s why my closet is suddenly pin straight and I scheduled arthroscopic surgery for my knee on April 18. Because God knows I’m not in control over the big stuff. You know, death. My Aunt Laura...

Basking in the gray

Walk the Line is one of those movies I can’t go past when channel surfing. Not really a fan of Johnny Cash’s music, I figure it’s because the relationship –really, courtship — between Cash and June Carter was a non-linear, non-traditional...

Knee as metaphor

I don’t often get personal in my Game Plan columns, but this week I learned a valuable lesson from a doctor visit regarding my injured knee and felt compelled to share. I write about fear a lot and it’s because I live a life — blessedly — where...