Why I don't give answers: the mirage of the right way
One honest question is more powerful than a hundred right answers. This is how coaching works. A client comes wanting an answer. I need...
One honest question is more powerful than a hundred right answers. This is how coaching works. A client comes wanting an answer. I need...
I set up my out-of-office responses and closed my laptop. I hid my work apps on a distant third screen on my phone, turned off all...
The first time I saw it I was on an elementary school field trip. Squeezed in a dark green sticky L-shaped seat next to a kid I didn’t...
On trusting the process.
It’s the year 2000. We’ve all survived the Y2K freak-out. The TV still works just like it did before and my 20-year old body is laying on...
My children are building forts. It’s Friday morning, 9:48 am, spring break for my children whose home has has doubled as their school for...
There are three flowering dogwood trees in our backyard here in Virginia. On the morning my father died five years ago, I walked outdoors...
There’s a lot of hype about failing fast and how companies and people who do are inevitably better at innovation. I’d like to offer...
The thing about giving advice is that you can reliably expect the universe to provide you an opportunity to practice what you preach...
Somewhere between his age and mine, I developed a growing hesitancy to asking for what I need. It took finding myself in articles about burn
On a recent weekend run with my two dogs, the hound stopped suddenly to sniff around a telephone poll and the leash, which was wrapped...
Every member of my immediate family has different dietary needs. For many reasons, and for several years now, we tend to do our own thing...
Just about every other Thursday, between 4pm and 5pm, I can expect a phone call from one of my most trusted friends, calling from her...
Someone I love very much will be having surgery in a couple of weeks. She has designated me as her person – the one who will drive her to...
The first thing most people notice when they see our backyard is the miniature skateboard park. We have an area near our back fence with...
"Leaving the darkness starts with curiosity about why you feel the way you do. It starts with refusal to believe that you are permanently...
At some point in my early married life, around the time we upgraded our couch from the one loaned to us from my parents’ basement, my...
“I have never ridden a horse” was a go-to for me in two truths and a lie, because at my age and in my part of Virginia, it always worked...
During the coronavirus pandemic, I have limited my daily physical exercise to activities I can do outside or in my basement. Most...
Earlier this summer, on one of the nights our family had eaten dinner outside, our children lit sprinklers and ran around in circles,...