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Or DON’T Do What You Love
The belief “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” has created a spectrum of hypocrisy.
Medium.com Writing Contest
The competition is fierce for thousands of dollars in prizes. This is what I submitted.
I Love “Hidden Brain.” It’s My Favorite Podcast
Never a dull show.
I Have Seen The Light and It Is Awful
Realizing there’s more to existence didn’t cause gratitude. It’s been kind of horrible.
Middle Age Priorities — Now I Get It
When I was in my teens my mother was several years younger than I am now (I'm 54). As a high school student, I was at the beginning of my career as a woman who cares about her appearance while my mother was getting towards the end of hers. We lived in California so it...
Trying Dispenza Again
About seven years ago I discovered Joe Dispenza. His books teach how to use the power of the mind through meditation to change yourself. I loved his writing, his meditations and his way of approaching life. I used his meditation for years and blogged about my...
Stuff I’ve Noticed
Inspired by the final blog post of Obesio the Loser, a former online-friend, here's a list of stuff I've noticed over the decades. 1. Sometimes it gets better. Sometimes it doesn't. 2. No two people are exactly alike, but few people are genuinely special. 3. I still...
No Such Thing as Evil
Slaveholders, rapists and serial killers are evil. No, they're not. In his book The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker argues that defining people as evil is not only unproductive, it's dangerous. It's dangerous because we conceptualize evil as being so pervasive that you...
No Such Thing as Heroism
Last night I noticed that Amazon Prime now offers the movie Hotel Rwanda. It's based on the true story of a hotel manager who shielded 1,268 people from certain slaughter during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I couldn't resist watching it (for the fourth time). What I'm...
Nostalgia Is a Lie
My sister recently saw a production of the musical Oliver and emailed me that it reminded her of when I was in our high school production of the same musical. "Oh yeah," I mused. "Oliver. That was so much fun! My god, that was a hundred years ago. I was 17 and so...
Gray Rhinos
Now that I'm an entrepreneur, I do a lot of networking and meet brand new people every single week. Last week I met a woman whose book is about to come out called The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore. Michele Wucker has intrigued...
Don’t Follow That Dream
During a recent interview with The Huffington Post, Jon Krakauer said his 1996 climbing of Mount Everest was a mistake. This is startling because in his 1997 book Into Thin Air, he explains that reaching that summit was a dream he'd had all his life. In many ways, it...
Quote Freely, But Give Me Credit
If I'm known for nothing else, I'd like to be known for this original statement: You can't cure families; you can only prevent them. Thank you.
Fine. Then DON’T Like Me.
This is a pre-post because I'm hoping to blog more extensively on this later. I'm in Toastmasters International, an organization that helps people become better public speakers. I'll be doing a speech called "The Art of Being Disliked." My point is that we burn up way...