52 STEPS FORWARD

Who Is the Fairest One of All? The issue is not possessing the Evil Queen’s vanity but our negative internal voice.  Too often, we talk to ourselves more critically than we would ever speak to someone else.     Of course, the parents who said, “You will never amount...

Cause Rather than proudly don a (non-Hawthorne) Scarlet A, I shamefully cloaked myself with the lamentable Crimson S.  Admittedly, today's message is a little more "Why and How-To" than my usual messages due to my prior unhealthy relationship with the issue.  ...

Many start the day leaping out of bed as if shot out of a cannon.  Running through our minds is a myriad of urgent obligations, and we send our brains into overdrive by first checking our phones for “vital” messages and “consulting” social media.   We want to start...

What to make of it? The Stoics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius both commented that it isn’t the events that disturb people but their judgments about them.    This principle is evident as I write these words from the terrace of our accommodations in Barcelona, Spain.  I...

Their Part The lyrics from a 1967 Beatles song remain true today, “Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends.”   We are born with less knowledge than a turtle that intuitively knows to crawl out of its sandy nest and use moonlight to find its ocean home. ...