“To me, this is so much of life: holding the really beautiful things and the profoundly hard things in the same palm.” —Suleika Jaouad I just finished watching the new Netflix documentary, American Symphony, featuring two of my heroes, writer Suleika Jaoud...
When readers tell me that they are enjoying my book, it makes my heart sing. If it inspires them to expand their creative adventures, I’m doubly delighted. Last week, I received an email with the subject “Brava” that brightened my day. The...
Thanksgiving in the US is almost here, the day we sit around the table, hopefully with family and friends, and share with each other what we are grateful for. Usually, it’s the good stuff—what has made us smile or given us joy—the “glads.” But this...
Peter Senge taught me the lesson of the boiled frog in his 1990 book, The Fifth Discipline. He described how, if you want to boil a frog, you put him in cold water and gradually turn up the heat. The frog won’t notice the incremental changes until it’s too...
I always thought harvesting was the fun part of the growing cycle. I still do; I just didn’t realize that it could be such hard work. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I planted so many apple trees, but I certainly wasn’t considering what it...
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