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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A friend on the east coast recently asked for my perspective on immigration since I live in the west and I had to think about how to reply. I consider myself apolitical and have trouble with the labels of Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative and immigration seems to be a decidedly political issue. But
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Few would consider the presence or absence of the trust between a leader and her team a matter of life or death. Recently, I was reminded of the truth of the critical importance of teamwork among firefighters while talking with the Captain of the volunteer firemen at Lake Tahoe not far from where I live in northern
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Heraclitus or maybe it was Herodotus complained about the graffiti scribbled on the walls of the Coliseum or maybe it was the Parthenon. But it seems to be a rule: The older generation complains about the younger generation. I am old enough to have heard friends and colleagues expressing the same critical, negative opinions about
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Thinking, Once Again, About Time-About Stability Due to major changes in my personal and professional life, I now have more free time…more time to write, pray, ponder, read, exercise-one, all or none of these. I should be more grateful than I am and there should be more to show for this first full week of
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It only takes one It only takes one. If you write, then you are well aware that once we reach the final proof, the final edit, there comes that sense: it is done. Sure we know that we could continue perfecting the article, the post, the chapter or the book almost ad infinitum but then