The Price
I’ve been creating a series of novels with a recurring theme: the price of the life we desire. (You can get yourself a chapter right here.) They explore relationships, career choices, and feeling right in your own skin. It’s a theme that has woven through nearly every choice I’ve made in my adult life. [In…
Silly Bird
For the past several days a bird has been flying into the windows of my house. It happens more than ten times a day, and startles me every time. It’s confusing. Hasn’t that bird figured it out by now? Doesn’t the sting of crashing into the window create enough negative reinforcement to prevent it from…
Bold Moves vs. Baby Steps
Bold moves are great. I’ve employed them in nearly every aspect of my life – career, relationships, health. They are declarative, attention-getting, powerful statements of being and arriving. I am reminded of the Star Trek episodes of my youth, where one could move from Point A to Point Z (without ever passing through B-Y) with…