Thanks for your overwhelming response to the first five favorite mistakes. Here are five more to add. There are many more. I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand [...]

I once read the mantra for a company called IDEO. It was simply, “Fail Quickly.” I wish I had read that several decades ago. I have the tendency to fail slowly. With a thousand pardons to Sheryl Crow, here are a few of my favorite mistakes. 1. Searching for a soulmate—That term is so sexy…and [...]

22″ x 30″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on Handmade Paper Not For Sale Ready to Hang Canvas and Standard Prints Available “Thus, with soul to speak, but helpless in my throes, biting my idle brush, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and paint.” —A paraphrase of Sidney [...]

One can wonder how anyone who has the slightest interest in books, or the barest curiosity about what the greatest of all novels may be like, could consider not reading War and Peace. At the same time it is easy to understand why many do not try it. It is too big, too “great,” too [...]

My mom (who is 73 years young) gleefully informed me yesterday that I now qualify for senior citizen discounts. I don’t even know what to think about that. If I truly still live the way Shaun Groves described me in this blog post a few days ago—and I’d like to think I do—then I’m really [...]

12″x 16″ Original Watercolor and graphite on handmade paper Archival Giclee and Standard Prints available “I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It’s a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close, but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island.” —Jemima Kirke

When news of the Boston Marathon tragedy broke, I saw it first on Twitter. For some inane reason I felt the need to turn on our television and tune to CNN. However, my father-in-law was visting, and knowing he is a FOX News guy,  I reluctantly searched the DirecTV guide and tuned to the “fair [...]

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Remoulade (serves 4) Ingredients: 3/4 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons cocktail sauce 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish 1 tablespoon chili sauce 2 teaspoons Creole mustard 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon Louisiana-style hot sauce, or to taste 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1-1/4 medium scallions, chopped 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley 2 [...]

Over the past two very difficult years, I am learning that a person with a healthy idea of self can manage not only the routine ups and downs of daily life but also serious crises as they develop. Social, personal, financial and professional crises, while always upsetting to one’s normal pattern of life, are not [...]

I read voraciously—much like I eat and drink; a good book sates the hungry mind. A great book satiates a thirsty soul. If read thoughtfully at fateful times, great books can shape one’s destiny. I offer ten tomes for your consideration and in no particular order that have nutured my soul. As any bookworm knows, I could [...]

These songs make me happy. And I like happy. 1.)  I’m Alive Hooters 2.) Drops of Jupiter  Train 3.) Beautiful Day U2 4.) Feeling Good Michael Buble 5.) Secret Crowds Angels and Airwaves 6.) Joy Hiromi 7.) Uprising Muse 8.) Dog Days Are Over Florence and the Machine 9.) Adagio for Strings Barber Tie 10.) Jai [...]

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is. We plop on the couch and our lives fizzle away like a proverbial Alka-Seltzer tablet. I did it last night, did you? We are wrapped around by pop culture. News that runs twenty-four hours creates info junkies. Local newscasts find the goriest accidents, the most salacious scandal, [...]