A few weeks ago, as several members of my family and I were walking along a dirt road to start our tubing adventure at an exquisitely beautiful springs called Ichetucknee, a group came walking up behind us making all sorts of noise. We decided to get away from them as...
When climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in August, 2003 my tent mate Marsha decided to stop speaking to me. We had planned this adventure for months and all of a sudden, she quit talking. I wracked my brain to figure out what I’d done and apologized anyway, but to no avail. I...
When I was 12 years old and felt virtually friendless, I picked up a copy of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Yes, I was a nerd, but I have always gone to books for answers, and as a shy and awkward kid I needed a strategy to succeed. I don’t...
Because I agreed without paying attention, I ended up–along with my daughter and grandson–at Ober Gatlinburg, an alpine amusement park where almost everything includes lots of altitude, of which I am terrified. First there was the chairlift which goes to...
I was having a conversation with myself the other day and realized something amazing— if I take away my lectures to myself about what I’m doing wrong, my judgments on what people should be doing differently (I can’t believe she wore that to the meeting), and my...
When I was young there was a TV show I loved about a witch married to a mortal, and this witch could cast all kinds of spells by wiggling her nose. It was called Bewitched, was great fun, and in it she was always using her spell-casting powers to solve the problem of...
