Life purpose

  • Your new trip around the sun

    A few days into the new year, a friend greeted me this way: “I hope you enjoyed these first days of your new trip around the sun.” — Say what?

  • Between 2 countries, finding a place to belong

    What could a story about a woman moving from Ireland to Brooklyn in the 1950s have in common with me moving from Sweden to Iowa in the 1970s? Actually quite a bit more than I thought just from watching the movie trailer.

  • Shaping the story of your next year

    New Year. Resolutions made and then broken. We set goals and hope. Here’s a roadmap to shape your story in the next 12 months. With the end solidly in mind.

  • The dream job

    I landed my dream job as a video and film producer with a growing production company, located in a medieval castle, complete with a moat. Perfect, right?

    So why did I leave after just a few months?

  • Celebrating labor

    Labor Day is about celebrating workers. Because if nobody worked, we wouldn’t eat, have anywhere to live or much of anything else. Labor makes life possible.

  • Independence Day

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

  • Facing our giants

    A lot of things in life don’t get done. They’re big. Scary. Complicated. And we don’t know how or where to get started. So we don’t face our giants. It’s safer that way. Except we miss out on so much…

  • There’s no place like home

    Home. We live there. Leave and come back. But what does ‘home’ really mean? And what makes something or someplace ‘home’?

  • Potter is not selling — he’s buying

    The Bailey Building & Loan. Crammed with investors who want their money. Now. Because it’s a run on the bank. George Bailey trying to calm them down.

    What does that have to do with the Coronavirus?

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