Receiving: How to fix pain, forgive and forget.


Sigh.  Last week at work, a stray had several kittens and abandoned three of them.  There was no way I was going to leave them to die.  So, I strapped up with baby formula, heating pad and oral syringe.  For hours, I nursed and cuddled, checking warmth. The first night one of them passed away. …

The Deep: Great ships need fathomless depths for support.


2012 feels like a great fight scene in an action film: Suspenseful anticipation followed by super-fast, ridiculously impossible athletic feats that defy the laws of physics and the street. And just when you think you know what to expect, slow motion kicks in and everything ramps up.  You watch transfixed and excited, rooting for whoever …

Sowing into the ultimate win-win: Applying sustainable development principles to your personal life and thinking


How often have you found yourself cursing a choice you made, when you knew, you just knew you could have done better or should have chosen differently?  How often have you gotten a sense that something wasn't quite right, but you just couldn't figure out exactly what went wrong, why, or what to do about it? You reap …