Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
The Tell-Tale Downward Glance
What do you think when others check their phones? Last week, I was chairing a group meeting. The group is highly functional: processing deep issues, holding each other accountable, caring for the membership, and nurturing the chair (thanks!). Then The Moment...
Embracing Fear
I was in a peer group meeting recently where someone described a bad trend. His revenues were down. Way down. He was against the wall -- and had to produce or perish. (I have his permission to post this.) He sought the input of the trusted advisors around the table....
Find Your Test Kitchen
[A note to readers: I haven't been writing much here at Net Cotton Content. I'm sorry. Not sorry to you. Sorry to me. I want to write more. Recently, I told one of my mentors, Matt Slaybaugh, that I had been enjoying the stories of Sholem Aleichem. Matt said,...
Self Care
This phrase keeps wiggling through my head: "self care." It's a phrase that I had never heard before my Gestalt training during the past year. In my coaching training class, the faculty raised our awareness of the importance of taking care of ourselves,...
Preferring Nothing
Everyone says, "When you have your health you have everything." I disagree. Recently my knees hurt. Really brought me down. I couldn't go up or down stairs without a breathtaking distraction from whatever I was thinking. Step, ow!, gasp, ugh! I...
MAN ON WIRE (40 Years Ago Today)
Perhaps you have simply forgotten. You might be too young to remember. Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope secretly stretched between the tops of the World Trade Towers on August 7, 1974. Forty years ago today, he was a "man on wire." Truth Or Fact?At...
The Next One Who Talks
I used to work for a contemporary Machiavelli. When someone was angry with him on the phone, he would wait for his chance to respond. Then, as he started to respond, he would tap his finger on the hook, aborting the call while he himself was speaking! ...
Greetings From The Cave
I am watching the events of the day. What I see has a lot to do with where I'm sitting. I'm sitting in the lap of comfort, during a decade of life that is offering opportunity, delight, health, and shalom (a sense of completeness). I am surrounded by love,...
What is your best VACATION practice?
For a new presentation -- and potential book project (working title: "Maximizing Vacation ROI")... I am seeking your best vacation practices here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NSBFJBD If you take two weeks of vacation a year (plus holidays), you'll...
The Adults Now
Alisa and I have survived all four of our parents, of blessed memory. In doing so, we have become members of the oldest living generation in our families. (As the youngest children in our families, we seem young for this status.) Anyway, Alisa looked at me and said,...
