Gatekeepers
Of the people, for the people, by the people. We are a free society in which our tax dollars go to support public services and those public services are for the benefit of the community. Like public...
View ArticleBefore the Dawn
They say, “You want something done, give it to a busy person.” So true. I was called an energizer bunny the other day because I have ideas brimming over and want to do new things all the time. Isn’t...
View ArticleEmotional Quotient
I knew it! PR isn’t about public relations – it’s about people. Imagine that. In a world gone social media, people still reign supreme. (I don’t think the twentysomethings have heard…) Great article in...
View ArticleEmotions Inform the Physical
I got sick this weekend. Again. I won’t go into the gory details but I had to wonder why, just a month after my last foray under the covers in bright daylight, I was sick again. I’m a healthy, active,...
View ArticleRune of the Self
Nothing in excess was the second adage written above the door at the Delphi. The first: know thyself. Every time I turn around, there is a lesson repeated from another tradition, all languages...
View ArticleImproving the World
I’ve always told my children that our goal on this earth is to make the world better. But I didn’t really walk the walk until the eve of my 40th birthday, when this midlife turning point made me...
View ArticleThe Idiocy of the USTA
Last fall, I picked up my tennis racquet again after no consistent play for 20-some years and I got back in the game. I love tennis. It’s a be-here-right-now game and I’m meeting great people on the...
View ArticleAt the End of a Week Like That
It’s been one of those long weeks, when I’m up before the sun and up until long after it sets and I still have a lot to get done. But it’s all good. Work is bustling so much that my … Continue reading »
View ArticleFollow The Path You’re On
I always said my passion was writing and if I could do anything at all, it would be to sit and write all day, every day. So imagine how perplexing it is that a simple goal of writing one hour …...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Relief Concert – 121212concert.org
Right now, I am watching history unfold. An unbelievable coming-together of talent and power tonight at Madison Square Garden shows e power of relationships to change the world. The 12-12-12 concert...
View ArticleArticle 21
“What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.” – Alexis de Tocqueville The post appeared first on Lynne Meredith Golodner.
View ArticleProselytizing
“Why do people have to tell you who they’re voting for, Mommy?” Asher asked as we passed lawn sign after lawn sign proclaiming support for the Obama-Biden ticket. “I don’t know,” I said. “I really...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Customer Service?
I felt a cold coming on and knots in my back. The kids were away with their dad for the day, so I called the Nordstrom Spa, an occasional destination for a massage to ease my stress and tension, which...
View ArticleLove Letter to Mumbai
Please read this moving and poetic account of the awful events in Mumbai last week by a writer who knows and loves that city. www.monicabhide.com The post Love Letter to Mumbai appeared first on Lynne...
View ArticleThe Power of Words
In everyday speech, I don’t always choose my words carefully. Sure, I think about what I’m saying and reach into the depths of my intellect for powerhouse articulation, but sometimes, it’s all I can do...
View ArticleMore Slowly Slowly
Sometimes, all I want is to make a lot of money and put it away in a safe place. Maybe a shoebox under my bed. My bed is large. It’s very hard to get to the middle point underneath it unless you...
View ArticleCupcakes
from The Globe and Mail, June 27, 2009: “The authentic soul of Canada is the wilderness … A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe… If you want to feel truly Canadian, you’ve got to...
View ArticleWho Are You?
Back in the teaching saddle this fall, I asked my Wayne State University English composition students on the first day of class to write a paragraph for homework about Who You Are. Tell me what you...
View ArticleToday’s Rant
Parents – don’t give your children everything. Teach them the value of a dollar, how to clean a house, to do their own laundry and make a meal. It’s imperative. Their very survival is at stake. Which...
View ArticleEverybody Acts Out in Some Way
When you force silence, someone blogs. When you insist upon rigid observance, someone cheats on taxes, cheats on wife, beats wife, beats children. Frequents Internet porn. Hires a hooker. Scrutinizing...
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