5 steps to get rid of financial anxiety.
Look around you, at your friends, extended family and even your co-workers and mutual acquaintances. Doesn’t it seem like everyone you know is navigating through some financial issue or situation? Ask any one of those people what the biggest, most stressful area of their life is and odds are, their answers will involve money in some form.…
Let’s Hear It For The Boys!
“I was taken by your focus on the feminine allures of a capitalist society built on consumerism”, a reader said in response to my recent article Keeping Up With The Irresponsibles. “And thought, whoa, wait a minute. We guys are equally preyed upon by Madison Avenue! …
Stop, Look and Listen to YOU!
I Could Have Had a V-8!
Suicide or Riot elicited a lot of heart-felt comments: “my heart aches for a world that communicates with their fingers rather than from their hearts, which cuts us off from the conversations that are crucial to our souls”, “support is everything… you’re not meant to do this alone” and “listen to others as we would want others to listen to us.”…
Suicide or Riot—you choose.
Keeping Up With The Irresponsibles
Summer Sighs
Every July we spend some extended time DownEast. It’s our special place and our special time. I wrote this blog a few years ago but love repeating it every summer. Hope you don’t mind….
I’ve been on a two week vacation in Robbinston, Maine, a very tiny town with no town center and only 500 or so people in almost 34 square miles. …
Everyday Decisions: Another Perspective
“Isn’t that interesting” is an attitude I try to remember whenever I have strong feelings about something. When I look at life with curiosity instead of judgment I can stay open to consider other perspectives. One of my followers sent me his perspective of my recent Everyday Decisions blog. …
Stop the world – it’s time to get off!
Holidays are a great excuse to stop our “normal” world and do something different. Whether we join in the festivities or not, we can just unplug and do nothing (or at least nothing as compared to our everyday lives). If you were lucky and didn’t have to work on the 4th of July, I hope you were able to do something different, something out of the ordinary—even if that was just watching mindless TV without feeling guilty!…