Why all the drama? OK, I have to confess, I am no fan of drama for drama's sake, and I'm in the house with two daughters who excel in drama!…
I was watching a well known leadership teacher speak recently (I like to keep up with this world since I find this both helpful and cautionary) and he was commenting…
When I was just learning about the Orthodox Faith, I was struck by the wisdom of fasting from certain foods. You see, I had been raised to think that a…
Perspective changes everything. Just take for example the modern tendency to hold up the anti-hero as someone to be admired or at least respected, and sometimes, even cared for.
This is…
I love what I read recently about being famous: "Being famous on Instagram or Facebook is like being rich in the game Monopoly." That is so true.
But we have a…
Paul Laurence Dunbar, an American poet of the early 20th century, wrote a wonderful poem called "Sympathy" and the third stanza is powerful in its pathos and beauty and heart-breaking…
The American astronaut Buzz Aldrin once said “Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right…
Listen to this quote from St. Peter of Damaskos: “Patient endurance kills the despair that kills the soul; it teaches the soul to take comfort and not to grow listless in…
Turns out, all this emphasis on self esteem was terribly misguided! We were first told that low self esteem was bad for us, and it is. Then, in 2007 Harvard…
Have you ever heard of "imposter syndrome?" Yeah me either, until I discovered it was something that a lot of leaders struggle with. I was being coached by a professional…