“Comfortable and familiar won’t lead you to your dreams.” —Matt Keller, “The Key to Everything.” I’ve been reading an excellent book lately that my friend, Cheri sent to me, titled “The Key to Everything” by Matt Keller. In his book, he talks about the keys to success: how charm, charisma, wealth, power, talent, looks, smarts, … More The Professional Guest: Comfortable & Familiar
I posted this earlier on Facebook and it’s worth repeating in my blog. It’s amazing when one teacher or one bus driver can influence the life of your kid forever. Because my son Garrett is blind and autistic, the Minnesota school districts worked exceptionally well with us to make sure that he had good bus … More The Professional Guest: Blind Kid Learns Independence
In my last blog, I started on the subject of Menopause. Since then, I learned that Prince had died. There’s a moment for pause. Back when I worked in the Minneapolis music scene, no one was more referred to or revered than Prince. He was Purple Rain. He was midwest. He was a Mozart, and … More The Professional Guest: Parole from the Sanatorium
Menopause. There’s a reason why women were often committed to Sanatoriums in the early 19th century. The loss of hormones creates never-before-realized levels of anxiety and hopeless thinking in the female brain as we age. Men don’t understand this. Having lived all their lives with a brain centered on logic, they fail to comprehend our … More The Professional Guest: One Leg Out
by Sheryl Thornberg “Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little … More The Professional Guest: Overcoming Social Anxiety
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