Prefer to listen? An MP3 download and Transcription are available at the end of this post. “It’s who we become as a result of an experience, not the experience itself, which is most valuable.” There is much to be learned from all of the recent scandals and these ‘once-great’ men. Personally, I’m done with this distraction, as are many of you. So now let’s get to the learning piece. Here is my synopsis of th...

At some point in our lives someone has probably told us, “You are what you eat.” This is a not-so-distant cousin of the precautionary, “You may one day eat those words.” Which is to say that we'd best watch what we’re saying, (and how we say it) lest one day we have to metabolize some indigestible words. It was just this afternoon when I finally managed to reach a vendor who was working on a time-sensitive project for me. She is brig...

Everyone needs to just calm down! You have probably noticed that, as a country, we are collectively spiraling into an emotional depression. You have probably noticed that we are simultaneously working our way into hysteria, each day’s fear mounted on the back of yesterday’s. This, of course, generates even more fear that, guess what, breeds more of the same. The result? We are perpetuating the very conditions that frighten us the most, the on...