“Indy, Evan might be right about the origin of his willingness to ‘go with the flow’. Being the youngest child in a large household makes it easy to follow the lead of the more experienced children. All I know for sure is that Evan has proven to be exactly what I knew he was when […]

Being Intentional Hey Indy, A client of mine was talking about how he makes time each afternoon to hit the gym. He said, “You have to be intentional.” While he was referencing his regimented workout, these words have hit me with blunt force. Of the drifter, the surfer, the drowner and the navigator…I figure myself to […]

While millions of people looked at the partial eclipse of the moon last Friday night, Daniel Sax was building his empire there. In his mind, Daniel was extracting water and oxygen from the lunar surface so that he could sell it to planetary travelers in the future. Daniel says the engineers and technology are available; […]

“A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.“ – Isaac Bashevis Singer (a fabulous writer, you should read his short stories. The man won the Nobel Prize!)

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” – Sue Monk Kidd  “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman  “Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.” – […]

“The truth happens to everyone. But stories only happen to people who can tell them.” – Allan Gurganus

“People will remember stories long after they have forgotten your bullet points.” – Laurie Beth Jones

“Those who tell the stories hold the power in society. Today television tells most of the stories to most of the people, most of the time.” ­­– George Gerbner

“A storyteller is in the same business that God is in. You’re creating a world, and the people in it.” – Tom Robbins

“Facts tell. Stories sell.” – Tom Schreiter

“Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.” – Bernie Siegel

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” – Sue Monk Kidd

Foreword My friend Don has a time machine. He takes me with him sometimes. You should come, too! Every person who rides in Don’s time machine is changed by it. The United States Department of Justice has booked passage on Don’s time machine for countless prison inmates. State and local governments and hundreds of rehab […]

“I think the idealization of women is indigenous to men. There are various ways of idealizing women, especially sexually, based in almost every case on their inaccessibility. When a woman functions as an unobtainable love object, then she takes on a mythical quality. You can see this principle functioning as a sales device in advertising […]

The anima, according to Carl Jung, is the Perfect Woman that exists only in the imagination of a man. We see her with four different faces. Eve – the nurturing mother. Helen – the face that launched 1,000 ships. Mary – spirituality and commitment. Sophia – inner life, search for meaning, the artist’s muse. In 1605, […]

LONDON (AP) – Rock singer Robert Palmer, known for his sharp suits and hits including “Addicted to Love,” died Friday (Sept. 26, 2003) in Paris of a heart attack, his manager said. He was 54. Palmer was on a two-day break in Paris following a television recording session in Britain, his manager Mick Carter said from […]

You get a shiver in the darkIt’s raining in the park but meantime-South of the river you stop and you hold everything:A band is blowing Dixie – double four time.You feel alright when you hear the music ring. Well now you step inside but you don’t see too many faces.Coming in out of the rain […]

“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” sounds like a song about a guy who is hung up on a girl, but it’s actually about a drug dealer trying to push heroin to a skittish new client. The tip-off is the line “Slow Hand Row.” Eric Clapton, a notorious heroin user, earned the nickname ‘Slow Hand’ back […]

General Electric stood as a beacon of American manufacturing for more than a century. It was once the most valuable U.S. corporation; its logo emblazoned on tens of thousands of products from light bulbs to nuclear power plants. Last week GE announced it would spin out its remaining operations into three separate companies, in effect, […]

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” – Sue Monk Kidd “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman “Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.” – […]

My friend Don has a time machine. He takes me with him sometimes. You should come, too! Every person who rides in Don’s time machine is changed by it. The United States Department of Justice has booked passage on Don’s time machine for countless prison inmates. State and local governments and hundreds of rehab centers […]

I met Joy at a rest stop on my trek up to where the polar bears swim. The official name of the Haul Road is Dalton Highway, a too-narrow gravel road with deep potholes, arctic weather, and a caravan of trucks taking supplies to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay.  It was summer. We were […]

“We named this shirt after a guy who used to work in our office. You know the type, worked nights, Saturdays and Sundays. A vice-president by the age of twenty-eight. Then one day he just snapped. Poor Henry, I guess the growth got him. Last we heard he was living off 20-inch trout from the […]

“If you lie out flat on the stones – it seems odd to try, I know – you will feel – here, that’s it – the warmth of the sunlight emanating from the stones. Turn your head to the side, ear to rock, and you will hear the earth revolving on its axis and an […]

When the Queen of England pulled out of the climate change summit due to ongoing health concerns, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (Charles and Camilla) stepped in for the Queen. But rubbing shoulders with the most powerful people in the world wasn’t a pleasant experience for one member of the royal family. When President Biden […]

Who’s peekin’ out from under a stairwayCalling a name that’s lighter than air?Who’s bending down to give me a rainbow?Everyone knows it’s Windy. Who’s tripping down the streets of the citySmilin’ at everybody she sees?Who’s reachin’ out to capture a moment?Everyone knows it’s Windy. And Windy has stormy eyesThat flash at the sound of liesAnd […]

Why don’t we take a little piece of summer sky,Hang it on a tree…For that’s the way to start to make a pretty worldFor you and for me. And for the sun we’ll find a lemon bright balloon.You can hold the string.Oh, can’t you see that little world of ours will be the prettiest thing? […]

Astrud wasn’t supposed to sing this song. It was her husband, saxophonist Stan Getz who discovered she could sing. Great discovery. Lovely woman. Thanks Stan!  

No one can eliminate fear of job loss, fear of career stagnation, or fear of humiliation in the workplace, but Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas, two former McKinsey and Company consultants that have helped more than 1,000 business leaders embrace “Unfear” methods of leadership, make it clear that fear can be channeled and transformed into […]

“The mortality rate for young men in society is six times what it is for young women, from violence and from accidents, just the stupid stuff that young men do; jumping off of things they shouldn’t jump off of, lighting things on fire they shouldn’t light on fire, I mean, you know what I’m talking […]

Celebrate good times, come onLet’s celebrateCelebrate good times, come onLet’s celebrateThere’s a party going on right hereA celebration to last throughout the yearsSo bring your good times and your laughter tooWe gonna celebrate your party with you, come onCelebrationLet’s all celebrate and have a good timeCelebrationWe gonna celebrate and have a good timeIt’s time to […]

While he was reading those pages (449-450) of The Plantagenets, the wizard said to me, “Indy, the craziness that began in 1481 sounds like the kind of craziness that precedes the zenith of a ‘WE’ cycle. The government (1.) escalated the collection of taxes during (2.) a tragic pandemic and (3.) labor – once abundant – was in […]

When Pennie and I were preparing to move away from the town of our childhood, I told my friend Phil that I felt like I was suspended in limbo. I have never forgotten what he said. “This is your time in the elevator. You are between two worlds. You are leaving behind the way it […]

“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.”– Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 5BC-65AD, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. This was my friend Phil Johnson 37 years ago, looking over a small section of his private library…

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors, and […]

“At first the taxes provoked disgruntlement, [1381] but this swiftly turned to outright fury as commissioners appointed to investigate widespread evasion were accused of heavy-handed tactics. The poll taxes tapped a deeper root of resentment that had been building in England’s towns and villages since the middle of the century. The Black Death had returned […]

If you are passionate about a topic and are looking for a way to stand tall in the eyes of the nation, just write an Op-Ed that gets published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, or USA Today. Bob Brody has spent the past 40 years as an Op-Ed […]