Are you dreading the future now? I'm seeing a lot of this around me. I see people who fear a future that isn't what they are used to, so they pretend that things haven't changed, and go back to their pre-Covid lives, refuse to wear masks, and go out drinking with friends. I see young …
One of the things I read, that comes to my emailbox and I read without thinking much about it, has invited readers to send it maps of their world under CoronaVirus. People send in beautiful little maps, colorful, with their house, their yard, their street, the park they can walk to. I have wanted to …
After spending a week in Boston on work, I popped off the Amtrak in New Haven to pick up one of my teenaged nephews so he could stay with me for the weekend while his parents were out of town. When we got on the MetroNorth, it was pretty empty. A few stops later, it …
There have been times in my life when I have felt fear. Fear of loss, when I was unable to reach my mother when she was abroad in late 2001. Fear of embarrassment, when I was placed in situations where I didn’t know anyone and was asked to pretend to be someone that I didn’t …
Several times I’ve worked for people who were leading from a place of fear. There was the guy who basically knew he had his job only because of his relationship with his boss. He was afraid to allow anyone who worked for him to make decisions. At one point, he entered into an agreement with …
