NEXT Mind
Having a safe place to think isn't necessarily just a physical spot. The place you spend your time managing your thoughts is your own mind. Is your mind a safe…
Ordinary Eyes
Imperfect eyesight usually results in the need to wear glasses or contacts. When the mental roadmap from eyes to brain breaks down, we accept correction; in fact, we are very…
Ordinary Choice
Sameness can be a lonely place or a bustling venue. Our daily lives generally are full of systems and things to do. What one person may feel is a schedule…
NEXT Up
Those few seconds when I first wake up are wonderfully untouched. My life is easy, the day stretches out ahead and miraculously, I feel pretty good. And then the issues…
Ordinary Oh
The mystical allure of the "AHA" moment has left me wondering where the heck mine have been. I don't recall ever hearing myself utter that pithy remark upon a great…
NEXT Selfish
It may sound counterintuitive, but it is really unselfish to act selfishly sometimes. Let's talk science. Much of scientific research on resilience, or how we react to adversity, has demonstrated…
Ordinary Middle
Being in the middle is rarely comfy. Think about the center seat in a row of three on an airplane - no armrest just for me! Maybe that is why…
Ordinary Sight
I was in middle school standing behind a piece of tape on the floor several feet away from a giant E when something good happened in my life. The nurse…
Ordinary Force
When 2020 started out, you probably had some secret ambitions in your head that you didn't want to share with anyone else. These quiet goals stayed hidden because if we…
NEXT Trip
Life is really just a long road trip. Our vehicle centric society makes me wonder how we used to describe our lives before driving came along. The most enjoyable life…