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Ground Hog’s Day Escape Plan

Ground Hog’s Day Escape Plan

by | Mar 27, 2020

These days, with a bounty of coronavirus induced time on my hands, my wife and I linger more on our morning dog walks. With the arrival of spring in Minnesota nature is coming alive, oblivious and indifferent to the current plight of their human coinhabitants. Over...
Attention All Choices

Attention All Choices

by | Mar 25, 2020

Two weeks ago I had a plan. My future had an outline. I am a student in Michael and Amy Port’s Heroic Public Speaking grad school and I was scheduled to return to NYC in April for the fifth in-person session. Then I had the great honor to be invited to give two talks...
All Hands On Deck

All Hands On Deck

by | Mar 20, 2020

There is a scene in one of my favorite movies, Margin Call, that rings true for these times. The movie is about the financial crisis of 2008 and how a math wiz at a financial firm discovers, in the middle of the night, before the rest of the financial world, just how...
How To Manage the Transitions of Your Day

How To Manage the Transitions of Your Day

by | Feb 28, 2020

Three months ago I got a Peloton bike. Overnight I went from a boring, 30 minute, mildly aerobic grind on an elliptical while listening to podcasts to getting my rear end handed to me by Peloton instructors, all in recorded classes I take on demand.  Yesterday my...
Why Don’t Humans Have Fur?

Why Don’t Humans Have Fur?

by | Feb 16, 2020

One night last week I was on my evening dog walk crunching along in the crisp, 10 degree, Minnesota snow. I sat down on a bench in a wooded area by a creek and stared at the dark sky, the stars, and the bright white full moon that casted long shadows among the trees....