... shouted a black man in a car driving past me on Times Square last night. "And a white man", I said out loud to my friend. She laughed. "He's like that Michael Jackson song." She laughed some more. We had come from Rockefeller center a bit in shock at the speed of Obama' victory. Quite ...
So I'm writing a book, and after explaining what the book is about to a good friend, he asks me why am I writing it? I gave the obvious answer of course, "Because I've always wanted to write a book." And then comes the predictable question, "Why?" And then my mind produces a deluge of possible ...
The other day I was having a drink with a good friend of mine and he began to relate his impression of one of the political candidates in the upcoming election. To say that his view was completely at odds with my own is to put it mildly. What was really interesting though was that ...
I posted before about our ability to create a space between stimulus and response. This is of course not Nobel Prize submission material, yet it's one of those truisms that is so often taken for granted. What I want to say here is that a practice of creating that Space will be a ...
The other day a friend of mine called me to share that he had a huge breakthrough while sitting on the can. He thought that last bit of detail essential to his story. (smile) The breakthrough that he had during his biological "functioning" was that he was automatically and unconsciously coming from "Something's wrong." From his personal, ...
A while back, I was standing in the elevator of my building and this woman came in with her kids, and somehow we started talking. Nothing unusual, and then she said, "I've seen you around the building, and you seem like such a nice man." She seemed to be a native Spanish speaker and this ...
I can't believe I did that. I mean really; what could have I been thinking? I'm too embarrassed to describe the event, but I will say that it was inappropriate. And to top it off, it was with a very put together professional who could be of immense value in my professional growth and a ...