The best children’s books make the impossible approachable. How else to describe the variety and depth of life revealed by a few carefully chosen words, or not, combined with apparently simple illustrations? The aim of […]
What is holding us back from expressing courage, compassion, and connection in our daily lives? The introduction to Daring Greatly by Brené Brown explains that leaders, workers, and parents want to live out these virtues. Yet, we’re impeded […]
Jonathan Crombie, the actor known to fans as Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables mini-series fame, died this month. My daughter, Devin, tweeted, The New Yorker published Why We Loved Gilbert Blythe by Sarah […]
Truth is a powerful thing. I’m not sure when that became one of my “things to say” but I’m saying it now as I read Dare Greatly by Brené Brown. The Introduction begins with her […]
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man […]
A bazillion years ago I was searching for the meaning of life. What that sentence lacks in originality, I make up for with empathy for seekers. Flailing, suffering and confused at the time, now I […]
