So very, very synchronistically, the week I posted Winding Down These Posts, a friend sent me the link to a BBC4 podcast interviewing Annie Duke about her new book Quit: […]
I had my own lived experience navigating the “oh, shit!” circuit just last week. What neuroscientists call the “Oh, shit!” circuit is the disruption of dopamine when we get a […]
As you read this post this morning, I will be immersing myself in the Mill Valley Film Festival, October 6-16, 2022, watching 32 films from around the world in 8 […]
Quite a dramatic statement: Hope is confrontation of darkness. Spoken by psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger in the recent Sounds True Activating Hope Summit. (I truly wish I […]
Finding HOPE When Everything Feels Hopeless by Elizabeth Bernstein appeared in the Wall Street Journal October 28, 2020, one week before the U.S national elections, still very relevant as the […]
Exactly one week ago today, I was flattened by the specific news of the president of the United States testing positive for the coronavirus. Everyone in this world is struggling […]
By now you’ve seem some of the many tributes honoring the life and work of civil rights activist John Lewis, or perhaps seen the excellent documentary Good Trouble. Calling us […]
My heart leapt up when I learned that I can now order books online from my local library and pick them up curbside by reserving an appointed time. Likewise, my […]
The best epidemiologists, public health officials, government officials don’t concur on how long it will take to “flatten the curve” of the current coronavirus pandemic. When it will be deemed […]
In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me there’s something stronger, pushing right […]