Seven weeks from today, my life “should” be totally different.  Seven weeks.  That’s 49 days.  That’s not much in people time.  It’s a heck of a lot longer for canines.  Thank heavens I’m not one.  But may be, it would…

In a recent conversation with colleagues one asked, “The question really is, is good, good enough?”  We were talking about a performance evaluation system with a five point scale that started at Excellent then went to Good, Satisfactory, Fair, and…

Lately, I’ve noticed incredible stress in my life.  In fact, I’ve been allowing stress to overtake my life for the past 6 months.  I’m probably a slow learner. I kept thinking that it would get better, and sometimes it did.  There…

I’m not talking about the guy in the corner.  The one peering over the edge of his zipped up wrinkled and dirty-grey sweatshirt who looks at you out of the corner of his eye.  I am talking about the insidious…

I look at my calendar, two months have flown by. Where have they gone? What have I done? A lot, and still nothing.  I look again and try to find space. Before I know it, it will be May. It…

Yesterday, I had a great many things on my mind.  Ideas were flowing.  I was feeling creative. I desired a quiet space to put it all on paper.  That was great, but then I thought about my obligation to the…

Well, not really! Several months ago, I got really ambitious and I changed this blog around.  Then I went away.  Not really away, but away from the blog.  It’s not that I didn’t want to write, I did.  I’d come…