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.)
Cheers!
I've never been a big drinker. I've known -- and know -- some Big Drinkers. They are the people who rely on alcohol to get them through: the party, the workday, the pain of daily living. That's been the biggest surprise of my executive coaching...
What Is Work?
People ask me if I like my work. They think I'm having fun. So here's what I think of "work." Work has a bad rap.Perhaps most people experience work negatively. I think that 99% of the people I know would rather be off work than at work. And they...
Running Rapids
Preparing for rafting the Colorado River this summer, I've just read Kevin Fedarko's The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon. (I am indebted to Kent Johnson for the suggestion.)...
A Writer Not An Author
I'm a writer, not an author. This thought came to me on a recent trip through California. I was enjoying being 55 years old -- for a month longer, or so -- and thinking what I often thought whenever my age ends in a "5" or "0."...
Goal Setting for Wingnuts
This is a message for those of us who do not like setting goals. I am like you. Perhaps you ignored my recent post on the topic at http://goo.gl/FHE44f. Perhaps you read it and did nothing about it. It was nothing more than Goals Porno. (Ew.) For...
Back In The Creativity Classroom
I'm delighted to be returning to The Ohio State University to co-teach a class on Personal Creativity & Innovation. My co-teacher is Ida Abdalkhani, who is the primary mover behind re-establishing this class at Fisher College of Business. Yay,...
Resolved for 2016
Here's an annual message in a bottle: it's time to set goals for next year! Don't like goals? I hear that from several smart folks every year. "I don't like setting goals." "Too much blame and shame." "Not ambitious...
Bright Angel Diary (Grand Canyon 2015)
Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman 1899-1981 Roger Tory Peterson — to the land and sky what Jacques Cousteau was below the sea — taught that one need not go...
The Green Fields of the Mind
As I began at Yale, Bart Giamatti began his term as Yale's president. Long afterwards, as the seventh Commissioner of Baseball, he became nationally famous for banning Pete Rose. I wrote a letter to the Times, applauding Bart's ethical...
Listening Better
Just because I have thought of something to say doesn't mean it is my turn to talk. Even if my thought is intelligent, helpful, valuable, and heart-warming — still, it might not be the right moment to speak. Even if (and this is the hardest part for me) what I...
