In the year 1965, at an undisclosed location in the United States, a little girl was born with an extraordinarily rare genetic disorder called Urbach-Wiethe disease.
Unbeknownst to anyone, by around her fourth birthday, the disease had completely destroyed her amygdala, that pair of almond-shaped...
I do not like cold water.
I was a swimmer in high school, and I vividly remember a particular morning practice the day after the pool had been emptied and refilled due to a maintenance issue.
The fresh, unheated water was sixty-three degrees. I stalled as long as I could, then dove in. I surfaced...
Through my hobby of bird photography, I have become adept at a very specific visual distinction:Â tree, or not tree.
I suspect we all have an evolutionary ability to spot dangerous, edible, or interesting anomalies in the mostly benign, inedible landscape, and boring landscape.
I just happen to ha...
The summer air crackled with a strange energy as I sat on the deck with coffee. Nature has a lot to say if you know how to listen. She expresses her moods and emotions openly, like a nonverbal live stream of what she is doing and feeling.
That subtle vibration in the morning quiet said she was fe...
The intention of this blog is simple:Â help people feel better, so they can work better and live better.
It is exceptionally difficult to think clearly, be creative, communicate and collaborate effectively, and be productive when one is stressed out, burned out, upset, angry, worried, afraid, asha...
Our daughter, Abby, is an eventer. Don’t worry if that means nothing to you. It meant nothing to me ten years ago either. Eventing is one of the equestrian sports you’ll see in the upcoming Paris Olympics, and it involves three phases: dressage, cross country riding, and show jumping.
We first pu...
Just the other day, Martha and I set out for a walk with our dogs, Ruby and Spark. Spark is two years old, and is highly enthusiastic about, well, pretty much everything.
A summer storm had just rumbled through, finally offering some relief from the steam-oven heat and humidity, and many families...
Drawing lines is easy. Knowing where and when to draw them is hard.
From time to time, work and life present us with difficult decisions that leave us feeling uncertain about where, exactly, a line should be drawn.
When do you find a new job?
When do you change majors? Or careers?
When do you pu...
Surely they are going to cancel.
I remember that thought as we entered the week of March 9, 2020. Our daughter was scheduled to swim in the Kentucky state championship on the coming Friday as the amorphous specter of Covid-19 began to reveal its true form.
Tuesday came and went; no word.
Thousand...
Although you might not have been around to see it open in theaters, you are almost certainly familiar with a film released in May of 1977 starring three relative unknowns: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. The summer of 1977 would be bracketed by amazing spacecraft, first fictional, ...
I’d like to begin this week’s post with a nine minute, forty-six second assignment. Grab your headphones or earbuds and watch Richard Goodall sing Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin' on America’s Got Talent.
If your boss asks why you’re watching YouTube on the company dime, tell him Greg said it’s oka...
Welcome back to our final installment in the Immunity to Change series!
In the previous parts, we defined our Stated Commitment (Part 1), identified our Self-Limiting Behaviors (Part 2), and uncovered our Hidden Competing Commitments (Part 3).
This week, we tackle the fourth and final column of t...
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