As a young student in Uganda, one of the many poems we were required to recite was “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is amazing how effortlessly I recall the singsong manner in which I learned: “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be [...]
Being in the driver’s seat requires both a steady hand and one flexible enough to adjust one’s navigation plan to accommodate the inevitable bumps in the road.
The real captain of this vessel dubbed me “Captain Zig Zag” as I battled the waves in an attempt to maintain a ’straight course’.
Even with aircraft, there may be [...]
Most of us have run into the phrase that states we must have a “burning desire” for what we want to achieve in life. In another context, we have no problem understanding the word ‘burning”.
From the weather many of you have felt over this past week or so, that word holds a literal meaning.
Do [...]
Are you ever looking from the outside, trying to figure out or reach for something on the inside… or vice versa? Why are we rarely satisfied with what is…how can we ‘be’ with where we are and achieve this “living in the moment” everyone talks about?
It may sound like a whimsical dream to some [...]
I love good, let your hair down, real fun. So, a couple of weekends ago, I was delighted to have an opportunity to speak before some “loverly” ladies of a local Red Hat Society – there was a queen and a duchess, two princesses and a baroness and fairy tales made up by yours [...]
