The foxes are back. Last year, every evening when the sun went down, foxes would visit our front yard. At first, they came to eat what was left of the birdseed we put out on big flat rocks each morning, I know some people think foxes are particularly nasty animals and should be hunted down and killed. And then, three months ago, they stopped coming. MORE >>

Kathleen and I are making plans to go to Corpus Christi to visit her sister, Jane, and her husband, Charlie. Since their oldest daughter had a baby girl two years ago, they've been thrilled to be grandparents. And it appears that before long, they will be grandparents again. There's a lot of love going on there. Love is what it's all about. Eat up. MORE >>

Yesterday I posted about mindfulness. must have mindfulness on my mind, because I have more to say. My good friend Bob Hodges visited for a couple days this weekend. He's on the return end of a 10,000-mile road trip from Washington state to Key West - and back. We're at the half-way point of his return trip, so it was a good rest for him. Goats!" MORE >>

In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Dan Arierly, the author of Predictably Irrational , writes about the impact of our short-term emotions on our long-term decision making. In summary, his research found that we tend to MORE >>

j0387795 My first executive leadership opportunity came very early for me – at age 27. brilliant (but oh so eccentric) entrepreneur who had already amassed a large fortune was looking for more, and tapped me to oversee the operations MORE >>