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Please Note: We interrupt murders, hate crimes and tragedies to bring you this message.  Montreal Is Home I am deeply grateful to have grown up as part of an English-speaking, Jewish community in a predominantly French-speaking, Catholic city. It seems that, perhaps by osmosis, I learned early-on to respect and appreciate differences. My Holiday Memories include [Read More…]

Yikes… There’s a lot going on, isn’t there? And uncertainty begets questions, lots and lots of questions. I bet you’re being asked to justify, simplify, clarify and/or defend, explain, project on a regular basis. Every Questioner has their own set of needs and expectations, as well as (putting this kindly) their personal point of view. [Read More…]

Love This View from yesterday’s walk by the Charles River. The leaves are changing, or “turning,” as we say. Yes, it’s Fall in New England and this is what happens. Things change, along with the weather, the amount of daylight and life in general. Sometimes Change Is foisted upon us and sometimes it just feels [Read More…]

Harsh Times and Challenges abound, my friends. This is not an easy environment: divisiveness, dissonance and dissing are all around us. And yet… We Can Find Joy and it doesn’t need to have a Capital J. Small joys are all around us, too. And one of those joys is communicating with others. Connecting where we [Read More…]

It’s August and for those following along at home, you may be reading this in early September. Either way, I always feel this time of year is a time to step back and build in some “pause time.” Can you slow it down? The World Is Too Much With Us wrote the English Romantic poet [Read More…]

Yup, That’s Me doing a little stretching out two months ago. I couldn’t be more grateful for this flexible, healthy body of mine. It’s probably a combination of many years of yoga, clean living, the structure of my joints and the length of my connective tissue. But there’s more to flexibility than that. Let’s call [Read More…]

To Start: Get Still and Focused What does “ready” look like? Football players lined up at the line of scrimmage. Runners crouched on their starting blocks. Dancers poised in the wings. A conductor with arms raised before the downbeat. It is completely still, before the flurry of movement (or words). Take that moment. And take [Read More…]

Yes, You! I believe we all share some responsibility to engage in civil discourse. Let me encourage you to be a self-starter and not wait for others to begin. We Can All Do Something Civil means courteous and polite. And discourse is what we’re engaged in all day, every day. So how can we do [Read More…]

I Stood At The End of Crystal Pier in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina this week and took this photo. The pier stretches 475 feet straight out onto the ocean, and was built of solid wood in 1939. I was looking at the full moon and here’s what I was thinking.  The Moonlight Was Brilliant and [Read More…]

March is One of Those Months kind of betwixt and between. Here in New England, winter has basically lost its grip, but  spring is playing hard-to-get. I remember this proverb from childhood: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. A little Googling turns up the year 1732 as the earliest [Read More…]