When I was younger, Halloween was my holiday. I loved dressing up as someone else and feasting on candy or – later – going to a party and the liberty that being someone else gave me. First memory, going to the library in town for a Halloween party. Too small to understand even what we …
When we had finished meeting with the client last week, we sat around the hotel lobby comparing notes, happy to be together – the perils of working from home – and yet too exhausted to have productive conversations. Finally my colleague said, “Let’s go for a walk.” We quickly changed into jeans and found our …
In one of my favorite zen katas, the seeker of guidance journeys by boat, camel, and foot to Tibet, hikes deep into the mountains, and scales a sheer cliff to get an answer from the wise man. After he asks his question, he asks a second: “Master, why do you make it so hard to …
I confess, I’ve been at it again, over-planning for a meeting, preparing endlessly long PowerPoint decks. But I had a great day yesterday that (I hope) cured me of this tendency. This week was training week for one of my clients. And the decks I had put together were designed to walk the participants through …
When people ask me what I’m reading, they always get more of an answer than they are looking for. I have about four books in play right now. On my phone, I’m reading Paranormal America, a sociology book that profiles Americans who believe in the paranormal. The authors visited different paranormal activities (a psychic fair, …
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