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The Water Gourd
on Oct 19, 2009 in Healing I grew up in a municipal Human Resources Department between the years 1979 and 1990. It was a different world then and I was profoundly lucky. The organization I entered, with no prior experience in HR, was in virtual shambles, hated and feared by...
Wedding
on Oct 6, 2009 in Love I have been off-line for the last month and some. I got married on September 13th. The preceding days had been filled with intense, sometimes frantic preparations, a big family picnic and a Cuban style pig roast. Time passed in a blink, and sudde...
Among Contradictory Ridges
on Sep 1, 2009 in Reflections and Poems My good friend, Joe McCarthy sent me a few lines from one of my favorite poets, William Stafford. It turns out you can make such things into posters. Click on it to make it a bit larger if you like. In these or any other times, Stafford’s messa...
Should I Stay or Should I Quit?
on Aug 26, 2009 in Choices The grips of the recession are still upon us, I know, and perhaps the wise would say this is absolutely no time to look for a new job. Yet the truth is that some of us are suffering in jobs no longer worth the stress of having them. I find myself hel...
Zinger on Zinger
on Aug 11, 2009 in Changing the World To me, one of the greatest success stories on the web these days is David Zinger, who started the Employee Engagement Network. I had a chance to ask David a few questions about his experiences the other day. Here’s what he told me about discove...
The Little Shop of Wisdom
on Jul 28, 2009 in Listening Perhaps because I’ve been working on money management and taxes lately, I have been forced to consider what I do for a living. The conversation with myself seemed to go in circles today until this strange oxymoronic phrase came to mind: selling...