We don’t know what’s going to happen. This is a loaded statement for any human being. We have trouble living in the “I don’t know.” So much so, we make up stories to fill in the void. But I’ve noticed that the stories I make up are almost always negative ones. I...

Red Light, Green Light I had a ghost writing client who was a highly successful motivational speaker. Her life seemed enviable. She had a recurring infomercial about transforming panic that constantly lured a huge audiences of followers and she had all the...

In the year, 2000, I wrote a book for a South African long-distance cycling champion, Johnny G, called “Romancing the Bicycle.” After a punishing race that lasted three thousand one hundred miles, he had a dream of creating an indoor training program that would...

I found an unusual article written by a reporter for Reuter’s Daily News. A few minutes before noon, a trio of Buddhist monks in their orange and red garb were headed to the Golden Arches. Not the gateway to heaven. They were on a break from the work they had...

This may sound shocking or frightening, but we’re never going to get our act together. We try. We visualize. We sit in meditation. We chant. We do breathing exercises. We plead our case to a higher power. We read spiritual and self-help books. We try to forgive and...

I had a writing client, Laura, who considered herself an expert in relationships. She and her husband, Brian, led three day workshops and the two of them were so in synch, it was enviable. Their focus was on hanging in there and learning the communication skills...