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A little dancing smile of satisfaction. Great passage from one of the few non-fiction authors  I still read regularly.  Every arrow points to the family. Says Carolla, almost daily. I couldn’t agree more. Every problem our society has can be traced back to the same, simple thing. Hang around long enough and you outlive the critics. Bob Lefsetz writes one of the few email newsletters worth reading, sharing and saving. Great…

A coward where it counts. This passage comes from the first fiction book I’ve read in a long time. Now my new favorite author. I wanted to change my operating system. From an outstanding interview with Derek Sivers on evolving your identity and living larger than your labels. Experts in every world except the real one. Brilliant offhand comment made by Bill Maher during his latest interview with Snoop Lion. …

I can’t tell if people are homeless or eccentric. Today I watched a woman on the train dig through a canvass bag of assorted trash, lime rinds, old newspapers and scraps of paper covered in chicken scratch. The critic in me wrote her off as crazy. The writer in me imagined her life story. The empath in me felt guilty for judging. The child in me kept watching to…

Some people collect coins. I collect sentences. Every day, I write down words, phrases, sentences and other language fragments plucked from books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. You could say I’m a bit of a sentence junkie. Anyway, I feel compelled to share them. In no particular order, with no particular attribution, for no particular reason, here’s what I’ve inhaled lately: 1. There’s no…

Some people collect coins. I collect sentences. Every day, I write down words, phrases, sentences and other language fragments plucked from books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. You could say I’m a bit of a sentence junkie. Anyway, I feel compelled to share them. In no particular order, with no particular attribution, for no particular reason, here’s what I’ve inhaled lately:…

Digital used to be the thing. Now it flows through all things. And yes, we’re more connected than ever before. But we’ve lost something along the way. Something meaningful. Something money can’t buy. We’ve lost a portion of our humanity. And unless we start expecting less from technology and more from each other, we’re going to plunge further down the digital rabbit hole into a painfully pixelated future. Face…

I’ve always known who I was, but I’ve never known where I belonged. And because that’s such a fundamental human craving, because the longing for belonging is a such huge part of what it means to be alive, when you don’t feel like you belong, you always feel like a piece of your life is missing. It sucks. Like an asterisk, there’s always this subtle undercurrent of notenoughness that…

Lack of communication is the root cause of most relationship problems.  When we don’t talk to each other, we don’t just give up our understanding, we give up our connection. And without a strategy for expressing our mutual needs wants, feelings and frustrations, couples who get lazy with each other won’t be couples for very long.  And because communication is our basic human need, our basic human instinct is…

Man’s search for meaning isn’t just a book. It’s the number one cause of unhappiness in the world.  Making meaning is what allows us to feel alive. It’s a form of living our deepest principles and highest values. And if we aren’t intentional about where, how, why and with whom we make meaning in the world, life is going to be an empty journey.  After all, money doesn’t buy…

We’re faced with an unemployment paradox. Being jobless is a barrier to finding a job. It’s the hiring paradox in which the status of being out of work creates fear in the worker that they will be seen as lazy and unmotivated by potential employers. It’s a vicious circle of rejection that leads to dissapointment and feelings of unworthiness. The longer you’re out of work, the harder it is…