What lands on your short list of priorities? — Bandwidth. It’s a phrase I’ve found myself using lately as I aim to optimize the time needed to “do all the things” that are a priority in my life. I was describing this to a businesswoman I know and admire in town. I need this much bandwidth, I was telling…

Channel your (healthy) obsessive tendencies to help reach your goals Take yourself back to a time when you obsessed over a crush or favorite rock star. You doodled names, changed your screen saver, and stared (now we scroll) at photos until you fell asleep. …

Mind + body healing through myofascial release therapy — Plantar fasciitis. If you’ve suffered from plantar fasciitis, you know the acute pain brought on by merely bearing your own weight with your ailing foot. It always seemed to me there was not enough stretch in my instep and that when that stretch met the end of its rope and…

Hiring trends from five $5B+ corporations — Author’s note: My interviews were pre-COVID. I also address other large-employer insider trends I am aware of since the pandemic began. I recently found myself wanting to change jobs. Gainfully employed, but hating it, I began to re-up my resume and LinkedIn profile, and then commenced the often daily online…

When we lose hope, the dark days of despair can creep in. — Author’s introduction: Back in 2012 I started a little Blogspot I called ‘House on Hope.’ I’m sharing a post from that blog which I wrote just as the shit was hitting the fan in my life. I was married, and by looking at the date of the original blog post…

Projects, difficulties, even a real race — just shout ‘hey.’ — I registered for a 5k run called the “Dam Scramble.” Hosted by a local recreation group, the race featured a series of event distances that traversed a trail system around one of Pennsylvania’s boatable lakes. Paperwork warned that there could be steep parts of this trail run. Some dear friends…

And here’s how I’m doing a year later. — My friend’s adult daughter is in fantastic shape. Though as slender and tan as I’d known her growing up, she now stands about 5’10.” When I visit with her mom, Maddy usually pulls up a chair and giggles as we reminisce about concerts and bad bosses and mutually acquainted weirdos…

Why the ‘Life’ side of the equation should be tipping the scales instead — When life gets a little busy I often visualize the spinning plates. A circus entertainer has 12 dowel rods upright. He starts by taking one dinner plate, and he spins it onto the dowel. He adds another plate to a dowel and gets it spinning, reaching slightly to the side…

As much as we may try to control our own situations, some are unavoidable. I think of this undesirable lack of control over my life as a thief. I’ve known a few thieves. …