It has been a long and somewhat frustrating day at work. You arrive home planning to have a little solace in the front of the TV. However, as you walk in the door, your spouse, who is bubbling with excitement wants to talk. Talk – ugh – this requires thinking and brain cells that are…
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I continue to marvel on a daily basis that humans are even able to communicate. To take a thought in my head, that is wrapped in my context and experiences – put those thoughts into words – send them out into the air – you hear the words and funnel them through the filter of…
DetailsA recent Associated Press article reported on the need to change the “smartphone habit.” It appears that smartphone addiction is by design. The constant stream of notifications, color scheme in apps, and all of the “likes” followers and in-game trophies are intentionally designed to distract you from the “real” world to focus on your “virtual”…
Details“Safety” is a word that we feel more than we speak, when it comes to our significant relationships. We also frequently feel unsafe, not necessarily physically but perhaps emotionally. We all want to feel safe. However, we may go about achieving that safety in some very creative ways. Like Earl, in the cartoon above, I…
DetailsWhile we have talked about “Love” in previous posts, it has been awhile and the discussion is always ongoing. I appreciate the words of one author, in her discussion of the powerful influence of media. She writes that it took her 30 years to discover important aspects of ethical relationships that she had never seen…
DetailsOn July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea crashed short of the runway at San Francisco Airport. The plane struck the ground with the tail hitting a seawall. Three flight attendants were ejected. One of the remaining flight attendants, Lee Yoon-Hye, helped hundreds of passengers get safely out of the plane and…
DetailsIt is one of those days. On your way to work there was an accident that backed traffic up for two miles. Then, once you got to work, things weren’t much better. Two of your employees were out sick, last night’s orders were never entered into the system, and the toner on the copier is…
DetailsAuthor Dana Reinhardt recounts the evening she escorted her elderly grandmother to an event honoring a Vietnam Vet. Complete with many celebrities, Dana pointed several out to her, including Robert Downey Jr. Later, exiting the facility, her grandmother tripped and fell hard into the wheelchair ramp, slicing her right shin. As she bled profusely, Robert…
DetailsA couple recently sat in my office – intense, unhappy, and bearing down on their marriage with the same exertion required to open a very tight jar. In other words, they were working really really hard but were not having success. The marriage was no longer fulfilling and they both felt unable to meet the…
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