I remember when camping meant a tent, sleeping bags, listening to the raccoons nimbly flip off the top of the metal garbage container and nights where the stars were so dense and the milky way created such a wide swath through the sky that most of the black night is obscured. That was camping. For […]
Leadership: wisdom of Edwin Friedman About ten years ago, I took the advice of an Episcopalian priest and read Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix; I was so intrigued by the content of this book that I bought several copies and sent them to friends. Recently, I
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Happiness: is there a key? Strange question, maybe, maybe not. “So, how exactly, do you decide to be happy?” My friend looked bemusedly at me as she replied to my statement that I thought happiness was a decision we made. “LOOK at that tree!” I exclaimed loudly and with vehemence, knowing that my reply to her question
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Until about five, maybe six years ago, I had never heard of the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James. For over 1200 years, pilgrims have been walking the Camino Frances or one of its many less populated variations: A 500 mile path from St. Pied du Port in France to Santiago, Spain
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Ebola and exercise Ok, I’ll admit that the title is a ploy to get your attention but it’s no lie. Exercise is the best antidote to stress of all types. Whether the stress arises from fear of Ebola or from anxiety induced by a more imminent danger, exercise is the best antidote. My publicist’s creative
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Communion, consolation and church The church was packed. St. Patrick’s Church in Arroyo Grande had a Mass of Remembrance –Communion and Consolation-at six last evening for All Souls Day. I expected there to be very few people there, after all, it was time for Sunday night football but there was almost no room by the
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This is not a game Maybe because of the very few people at this morning’s Mass-not obligatory because it fell on a Saturday, I thought of a comment my husband made about this life we are living a few weeks ago, This is not a game. Surreptitiously, I glanced around the less than half filled
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” So you’re a war dog.” I was talking to the beautifully marked German Shepherd standing next to a second brown and white, fairly large dog. Both were tethered to the RV. They were looking toward the owner of the pair of feet, the remainder of whose body was hidden by the red pickup truck
Once I realized that writing was exactly like other businesses my husband John and I had done together; some extremely successfully; others not so much, I accepted the fact that promoting this new novel will be no different. Therefore, I hired a publicist to help promote the events planned for the Texas trip. Wisely, the
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I flunked Retirement In the flurry of publishing my first novel, I hired a publicist for a whirlwind ten days in Houston where I had 8 speaking engagements lined up due to my friends and family living in Texas. I would not do that again and recommend that others save their money. However, it was
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Lin Wilder has a doctorate in Public Health from the UT Houston with a background in cardiopulmonary physiology, medical ethics, and hospital administration
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