The joy of reward

I am feeling grateful today for realizations hitting in waves. The kind that come with emotional maturity and awareness of self. The sort that are around issues I have worked on so diligently over the years. I love those moments of “oh yeah, it’s paying...

Wine and art and death

As I talked to a friend this morning, he said, “I’d like to read all this in a blog post.” Further talking and out came this: “You’re not writing it because, one, you’re afraid you’ll turn off your readers, and two,...

Happy Birthday, Kevin O’Sullivan

Was it only two years ago that I gave you a Hercules figurine? It was a little joke, a play on words, that your opponent in an election had called you a demigod when he meant demagogue. I loved the idea of giving you something funny that was also a symbol of strength....

Nancy, bright and dark

“Remember that movie Lisa, Bright and Dark from grammar school?” I asked my friends over cocktails one night last month. It had popped into my head, this classic that fascinated so many of us as kids. Poor Lisa was 16 and losing her mind. I suppose it came...

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,...

‘Unfettered’ gift

One day I had a conversation with my friend Todd about how some things in business seem to come so easily to him. He has a kind of vision around ideas that I can’t relate to at all and it fascinates me. So one day not long after that, March 4 to be exact,...