Most of us think of ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyances, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves [...]
When we were in high school, my brother, coming off a season of cross-country racing, impulsively decided he’d run a marathon. I was jealous and privately resolved that I’d someday run a marathon, too. But there was college, then grad school, then work, and before I knew it, I had two children and was contemplating [...]
I was fourteen years old when I decided to buy my own ten-speed bicycle. Up until then, Mom, Dad, and Santa Claus has always supplied my wheels, from my Radio Flyer tricycle to that first two-wheeler and on up to the sparkly-blue Schwinn Sting-Ray, with the white fiber fill banana seat and the gooseneck handlebars, [...]
I once had a friend who said she wanted to give her kids her “undevoted attention”. At the time, I thought it was a funny slip of the tongue (I knew she meant undivided attention), but for some reason her words stuck in my mind…only to return to haunt me about a week ago. It [...]
I was taught how to make lists by Superwoman. I was the scattered girl in my first job as a design assistant to Shirley Conran, a woman who much later became famous as the author of a book that told everyone how to organize their lives. Well, she organized me first. Shirley’s life was ruled [...]
When people learn that I’m writing a book about everything I’ve ever done that worked , they’re puzzled and polite. I try to explain that it’s not about how to unblock the sink, but more about how to unblock themselves. If you were really stuck in a place you didn’t like – a bad relationship, [...]
Sometimes nothing seems to be working. You’re between jobs. You’re in a relationship desert. You’re trying to get projects off the ground but nobody’s returning your calls. You should be training for a marathon, but you’ve turned you ankle. You’ve reached the stage where you’d just give up and go with the flow if you [...]
WTTW presents a new film by Ken Burns… The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska – The National [...]
Scott Weaver Builds a Tooth Pick City! A million tooth picks and 34 years later and poof! A city in full in folk art and made with the artists own two hands.. What a patient guy! Scott Weaver is not into it for the money but rather the creativity since turning down $40,000 from Ripley’s [...]
What will you do with the rich gift of time? Will you take it and fill it or will you simply stumble through it like a bleak and empty desert to be crossed? Oh listen! Take heed of God’s enjoinder, TAKE TIME… Take time to look. It is the price of beauty. God has bestrewn [...]
