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Nov 17, 2022 May Your Holiday Be Filled with Characters—and Character As many of you will be in the throes of eating, or digesting, your Thanksgiving rations next Thursday I thought it prudent to send along my holiday thoughts this week.… Read More
Nov 10, 2022 What Happens When Intention Meets Intuition? This past weekend on The Splendid Table podcast, I heard Will Guidara, partner at Eleven Madison Park, (voted “World’s 50 Best of the Best Restaurants,” among other accolades,) talk about… Read More
Oct 20, 2022 Are You Keeping Track or Keeping Score….With Yourself? Last week I wrote about how to tell if someone in your life is keeping track or keeping score. Why? Because when people around you are keeping score it can… Read More
Oct 13, 2022 Are People in Your Life Keeping Track—or Keeping Score? This past week I was speaking with a client whose team was completing a large project. Things were going OK but, she said, but there was one team member whose… Read More
Sep 29, 2022 “Because You Said So?” I Don’t Think So A few weeks ago, I wrote about phrases that do not promote harmony.  This past week I attended a meeting where I was reminded of another:  “Because I said so.” … Read More
Sep 22, 2022 “A Busy Mind is Not Necessarily an Anxious Mind” Greetings all, The onset of fall has been pulling me in multiple directions.  I’m thinking the same might be true for many of you. And while I would like to… Read More
Sep 15, 2022 You May “Know” It—but I Wouldn’t Say It Over the years, I’ve written about words and phrases that do not improve the situation.  (“Calm down” and “I told you so,” are top contenders.) Here’s another: “I know you…”… Read More
Aug 11, 2022 What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the messages I’ve received since I wrote about Tiger’s passing because I know when someone loses someone they love, it can be… Read More
Jul 28, 2022 What Do You Get When the Body is Broken but the Heart is Whole? This. As some of you know, I had to say goodbye to my big dog last week. It was unexpected and it was heartbreaking. Among the many reasons Tiger held my… Read More
Jul 21, 2022 “Thank You for Your Rude Surprise…AKA Your Email” The below quote strikes a chord all the time, but never more than in the summer months… perhaps because it’s hot and sticky?  At any rate, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “A… Read More

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