I was on the phone watching my children play in the front yard through the office window. It was a stressful conference call about a seemingly insurmountable problem. As I sat in my chair observing the motion of summer through glass panes, I noticed that my kids weren’t satisfied just running around the lawn. Yes,
One of my best friends introduced me to the concept of an “elevator speech.” He is a successful executive who works at a big firm in town. I talk to him often about the joys and miseries of teaching and writing and he explains what it’s like to work in his world (a career that
In my part of the world we don’t often see snow before Christmas; but this year it is being delivered early and often. Nothing transforms the winter landscape of dead leaves littering brown lawns, barren grey trees, dirty sidewalks and sunless skies like a good, thick, sparkling, fair layer of snow. In that moment before