Four chapters into my novel (!), which I’ll blog more about once I’m finished the 75,000-word draft, I thought I’d take a break and point you to a column by the fabulous Star Parker (love her!). All Star Parker’s op-eds are worth reading, especially the latest, alternatively ...

It is a great thing to do and be everything that God has created you to be.  After all, it is He who knew us, created us, gave gifts to us; and it pleases him when walk boldly in the manner he has so designed.   I have a friend who is a powerful man of God.  You see it in his overall presentation...

Today Teresa, Bonnie and I would normally be in conversation for our Tuesday show.  Yet, life is carrying us into more and more contexts which make it difficult for us to carry on with our schedule.  Last week we missed Tuesday as well.  All of us are feeling the fullness of doing moving our live...

This week’s podcast is a joint interview with three of the minds and voices behind CNET’s Buzz Out Loud — Tom Merritt, Natali Del Conte and Jason Howell (Monday co-host Molly Wood was unable to make the interview). Buzz Out Loud may be an audio (and video) podcast, but it utilizes ...

For most of the last year there’s been one major point in relation to wikinomics that I’ve been trying to make more than any other - that while it’s often seen as synonymous with the “wisdom of crowds“, more often than not wikinomics-enabled strategies focus on finding ...

Holy Guacamole!!  And people call me Johnny Sunshine ;-)  Did you hear (or read) what Credit Suisse beverage analyst Carlos Laboy said at Harry’s Beer Business Daily Beer Industry Summit.  I’ve got a real job so I couldn’t attend… sorry Harry, I enjoy drinking on your...

That title is said with all the sarcasm writing can't possibly accurately portray, but... I do always get everything I want and need. And just by typing this, I'm reinforcing this by putting that energy out there. That whole "Secret" thing - even though I learned it long before it ...

“What are you reading?” the captain asked. Not a common question on a military base. Room in my duffel bag was limited. I took with me a book by the German novelist Daniel Kehlmann whom I was supposed to interview in March and The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. I was impressed by Filkins...

"I was born in 1920 in Bayonne.  I had four older sisters. When I was eleven, my mother died and my father disappeared.  I was talken in by my sister Jennie and her husband Jack.  She was eighteen, he was nineteen.  They raised me.  I graduated from Bayonne H...

I won't go into details in this category, but I just participated in something that I haven't done in a long time. All the while telling myself that I was being true to myself - the whole "100% ME" thing. Yes, I've done this "type" of thing with others - but never wit...