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“It is not just a connection for the four of us, but we really feel like it is a connection to all of you ... to everybody. We hope that it brings a smile to your face. We hope that it provides some…

What do you think? Well, if I think my thoughts might be uncomfortable to you, it depends on the strength of our relationship as to how I'll answer this question, doesn't it? If our histor…

"To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that." Aeschylus & Robert F. Kennedy Kennedy shared Aeschylus's 2000+ year-old thought with…

"Shut up and work. It is a formula that has always worked very well for me." Albert Adrià | 1969 - | Spanish chef Harsh self-talk, for sure. But, I love the sentiment.  It's oddly a l…

(an excerpt from Smile & Move) We all have our ‘customers.’ And most of us have more than one type of customer. A teacher serves his students as well as his school administrators (an…

“Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.” Marcus Aure…

"Stop. Reflect. If you don’t do that you are a lesser human being for sure … The busyness does not make our lives meaningful. It is the interior life that makes the greatest difference to us in the…

For me ... until her passing in 2014 ... Maya Angelou was just a poet that had an opportunity to share her words at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration in 1993. Since then, I've been inspire…

"It’s wonderful, right? It’s what we all want. We want that time, that attention, that calm, soothing presence from somebody else." Years ago, I drove into my neighborhood to a new street sign... 'T…