When Life Hands You Lemons: How to MAKE the Lemonade
We all know we’re supposed to make lemonade when life hands us lemons. As nice as it might be to never get the lemons in the first place, it’s not…
What’s My Motivation?
This is the stereotypical phrase that the would-be actor asks the director in order to breathe life into the character. What motivates this character? What makes them tick? What matters…
Rewiring Circuits in My Super Secret Laboratory
When we feel like someone is trolling us, pushing our buttons, or getting under our skin, we generally stop responding and start reacting. When that happens, we have let go…
What Would Future Me Do?
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If so, then the cement between those paving stones is the tired disappointment we feel with ourselves when we…
A New Year and a New Beginning
We tend to look to the new year as a clean slate and a chance for a new beginning. Except that as anyone who has made New Year’s resolutions knows,…
Swerving Around Tradition
We have a wonderful cultural heritage that tells us that things that are old — things that have lasted — are the things that are good and should be preserved. To the ancient Greeks, gray hair meant "wisdom" because, after all, someone had to have accumulated wisdom in order to have survived long enough to get gray hair.