I am 100 percent guilty of trying to plan and fix everything—my life, your life, the national debt, global warming, healthcare. You can see how this might be a problem.…
Category: <span>Past A&M Home Pages</span>
Going through a doorway might be just the ticket to reset your day, your month, or even your year—or maybe just your thinking. You never know what’s waiting on the other side.
“Try, try again.” This is one of the earliest of the homilies I learned as a child. Even then I didn’t like it very much because I prefer to succeed…
“I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” I love this quote from Blaise Pascal, who was (as Encyclopaedia Britannica so eloquently puts…
The latest book from M.C.Tillson doesn’t have a thing to do with lighthouses! What? It is, in fact, a rhyming picture book for all ages with delightful illustrations that are…
It’s easy to help when you’re doing something. But if you’re like me, helping by doing nothing is really difficult. It’s counter-intuitive. It’s contradictory to our “get-er done” ethos. And…
Just because we’re “staying home” here in the San Francisco Bay area, doesn’t mean that everything has come to a complete stop. I thought it might be a good time…
Reading is a topic we come back to time and again, so I’m happy to pass on these links that promote the importance of reading—for all of us. “No book…
Lighthouses always make me think of going to the beach with my family on summer vacation, so I join with many others in celebrating the hardworking, ever popular, and often…
With much of the country in the throes of a national heat wave, I expect that celebrations of National Ice Cream Day (the third Sunday in July—which as it happens…