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I was recently asked to react to a series of common business platitudes. One of the firing-line expressions was “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The expression is frequently [...]

A young family in our neighborhood recently had to vacate their house due to a mold problem. The mold had settled in their HVAC system and for many months had been pumped into all corners of [...]

Sitting on barstools at a counter on the rooftop of the terrace of the hotel, we surveyed the golden beauty of Southern California on display in all directions. Endless beaches, sun-kissed and [...]

This week-end, my five-year-old grandson, Fulton, decided he was ready to ride a bike. I can’t really speak to his decision process. From my vantage point, there was very little [...]

Living Water The clear, cool water rushed downstream. Following the narrow canyon, the stream moved over rocks, through small falls, into the nooks of boulders, and then eddied back into the fast [...]

Threads. The many colored elements of life which seem to appear randomly, then reappear curiously, until finally revealing some aspect of a greater tapestry that can only be seen with time, [...]

Earlier this week, market strategist and geo-political commentator, John Singer, released an essay entitled Losing the Plot. He opens the piece with a story about a young woman posing in sultry [...]

Can you remember a time when you walked on this earth unencumbered with self-consciousness? A moment when you dressed, spoke, played, danced, laughed, or raged without concern for appearance, [...]

Sometimes I feelI might touch eternity –Lewis tells me that nowIs its closest point. from Resonant Tension, Phillip Berry In a note to me last year, my sister called me a “serial [...]

The Basilica was dark. Drawn to the nondescript exterior by the striking blue doors, we walked-in to what felt like the thousandth church that day. It was a comfortable day in Rome and the sun [...]