My big divisible-by-five birthday has arrived! At past milestone birthdays and events, I’ve written lists of things I’ve learned during that time. For my 60th birthday, I’m doing something different. Here are 60 quotes from my speeches and books that reflect things I’ve learned in life.
According to social media, we are all doomed. Society is on the verge of collapse as we all get Omicron and America becomes a right-wing dictatorship. If we manage to escape all that, we’ll still get wiped out from climate change. …
Have you already broken your New Year’s resolution yet? If not, you will soon. And when you do, don’t blame yourself. The problem isn’t with you, but with New Year’s resolutions themselves. Resolutions don’t work for several reasons. One of them is they are based on willpower.
Willpower sounds great…
We’re a few days away from the start of 2022, and I just want to get on with it. Yes, I know Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles were courageous. Yes, I know everyone was talking about Squid Game and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Yes, I’m sad all those celebrities died…
Social media enables us to build communities around the world. A new writing community is Feed My Reads. Through them, I met English fantasy author Lucy McLaren, who recently interviewed me on her website. In this post, I return the favor — excuse me, favour — by interviewing Lucy. …
We thought 2020 was the undisputed Worst Year of Our Lifetime. That title might belong to 2021. As bad as things were last year, we still had hope. We hoped if we had a vaccine, things would go back to normal. We hoped if we had a change in government…
Angry customers are the bane of every service employee. We can summarize them with a single name: Karen. Entitled, unreasonable, condescending (not to mention white and middle-age). The person who acts like the world revolves around them, and everyone must cater to their whims. …
I have a little dreidel, and you probably have one too. If you’re Jewish, you have several all over your house. You keep the nice ones on the shelf next to your menorah. You store a bag of the little plastic ones with your holiday decorations. And there are one…
I write about the importance of gratitude this time each year, inspired by the Thanksgiving holiday. As Americans, we are taught from an early age about the friendly Indians who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter, and the grateful Pilgrims who shared their bountiful feast with them. It’s a story…
