LIFE’s LITTLE WARNING LABELS 1: BEWARE OF WHAT YOU SEEK

As I mentioned last week, I got to have some really amazing discussions with some very smart people recently. One of them, a fellow relationship counselor/coach type who wishes to remain anonymous, said something that really…

The Control Room Solution

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LifeSpiral

One of my guilty pleasures is clicking on links that promise things like “Three Easy Steps to Happiness” or “The Six Lessons Everyone Should Learn” or “Ten Reasons You’re Wrong About Everything.” Part of it is research of course — I’m working on an article entitled “Ten Things About Life That Cannot Be…

Matryoshka, part one

A long time ago (i.e., before the internet) there were two young men learning and exploring the exciting world of performance art in the most vibrant of all performance-arty places, San Francisco. They shared ideas late into the night, tried new things, laughed at each others’ ridiculous…

Loveday

If we ever needed proof that Valentine’s Day is a social construct, my grandson Harvey gave it to me yesterday. I had grand plans of interviewing him about love, and writing the answers, because hey, if a grandkid can’t shovel your walks, the least he can be is a source of free content for your blog, right?

The Uncomfortable Twist, part 1

Let me take you on a little conversational journey my mind had with itself recently. I was attending (and presenting) at a relationship conference, enjoying the exchange of ideas. Many of them seemed quite familiar, and I found myself having quite a few of the those neat…

Dreams of Speech

Greetings from Sunny Southern California!

I’ve been flown out here to teach a couple of classes, including one that I’m hoping to bring to LoveLifePractice in workshop form: The Defining Moment. It’s a method for figuring out what you actually want out of a situation…

More Better

Monday I ended the post with what I hoped was a thought provoking question to begin your days this week:

Are you going to make your life better today?

Or are you going to make a better life today?

Watch for Falling Rocks

Being ignorant is no sin. Remaining ignorant, is.

I wish I could remember where I read that quote — Heinlein? Bach? Voltaire? — because it’s been one that has stuck with me for as long as I’ve been doing critical thinking.