It’s not every day you wake up to find out the company you worked for folded overnight. What were the odds? (Well, it turns out they were probably good, but I didn’t know to be paying attention.) But still. It was an unexpected shock, and a heart-breaking one. I really liked my job, had good relationships with…
I had the privilege of attending the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek this week, and one of the sessions was an interview with Ed Catmull, president of Pixar animation and author of Creativity, Inc (which is now most definitely on my reading list). He said something so simple and yet so profound: “Art is not…
I have a confession to make. The title of this series changed about 5 times as I perused my shelves. “Oh, but I love this book; I have to tell people about this one.” “No, I can’t include that one; people won’t understand it.” “How can one person read this many books? (Every….
I have loved faerie tales all my life. I still distinctly remember the summer I discovered Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books; I’m not sure I did anything other than read that summer. But one of my favorite fairy tales isn’t found in any fairy tale anthologies (that I know of). This one is an annual re-read…
e.e. cummings once said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Goodness, that’s true! The older I get, the more astonished I am by the number of “voices” that try to influence us every day – some with good intentions, some not so much, and some not even intentionally –…
