Category Archives: Family & Friends

None of us escape jealousy or envy. We either feel it ourselves or are the subject of it in others. What causes these less than desirable feelings tha... Read More

We’ve all avoided difficult conversations, or worse, engaged in toxic communication patterns that made things worse. The cause for it was a disagree... Read More

Dad Such a small word packed with so much meaning. Who among us doesn't have a significant thing to say about our Dad or father figure? We visualize ... Read More

Throughout life, there will always be an occasion in which you will want to give someone a gift. It could be in celebration of a birthday, the birth o... Read More

“We all have our bubbles,” said our friend Carrie. She went on to explain that she heard Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, use th... Read More

Social isolation has been thrust upon us. We have been enduring it for a while and some of us have at least a month yet to go or more. If you are feel... Read More

I never thought the act of finding friends was something I’d have to plan and execute. Why would I? In my experience, friends came to me. In coll... Read More

To my lovely English partner “tradition” is roast beef and Yorkshire pud for Sunday lunch, but I’m Scottish and that was never a tradition in ou... Read More

I had been asked by a university to give a commencement speech to their Fall graduates, and I’d learned in my work, be it building businesses, or wr... Read More

This past holiday I did something completely out of the box. It all began with a long-distance conversation with two of my old college friends. And th... Read More

Holidays are a time spent cheerfully with family. This sounds nice in theory, but can sometimes be difficult, especially for those with large families... Read More

Confession: Even as a millennial I do not always understand a lot of millennials and gen z culture. That's because the culture of teens, twenty-someth... Read More