Posted in art, celebration, children, legacy, memory on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“A nation reveals itself by the people it honors, the people it remembers, and the people it celebrates.” ~ President John F. Kennedy While Dan and I were in Philly over the weekend, we stopped into the U.S. Mint to see where the money’s made. Because it was a Saturday, the manufacturing floor was not [...]
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Posted in dreams, good fortune, journey, travel on August 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This weekend, my traveling pal, Dan, and I went to Philadelphia. We stayed with Dan’s friends, Jeremy and Reese, who could not have been more gracious hosts. They also have a bulldog, Dolly – an added bonus. Jeremy took us on a tour of the neighborhood around Penn, my alma mater, and we went through [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making on August 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The through lines of our lives can be drawn between our tipping points, those moments and decisions that are so influential that they end up shaping our path forward in a dramatic way. I’ve had a few of those moments: my choices to try to create a career in theatre and then to leave touring [...]
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Posted in art, New York City, nostalgia, theatre on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was in midtown to get a pie as a gift for my hosts this weekend. My pal, Dan, and I are heading to Philly for a weekend – our third long weekend of travel together. (The other two were to Portland, Maine and Nashville.) We’re staying with Dan’s friends and I’m bringing a [...]
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Posted in clarity, communication, courage, feelings on August 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, American Author There was some little snap inside me this week. I’m not sure what it is – could be that the heat has just [...]
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Posted in art, choices, decision-making, impact on August 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.” ~ Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, poet, and author My Uncle Tom sent me this quote just [...]
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Posted in goals, marketing, New York City, priorities, work, youth on August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I always know that something is afoot in the universe when the subject of a conversation I have with a friend is echoed in a conversation I have at work the very next day. Last night I had dinner with my friend, Courtney, and we talked a lot about “arriving”, both in a professional and [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, literature, mentor, writer, writing on August 24, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I went to The Half King (one of the last great New York literary bars) last night to hear the author Tom Grimes talk about his new book Mentor: A Memoir. The book discusses Grime’s relationship with Frank Conroy, his mentor and friend whom he met at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop when Grimes was a [...]
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Posted in growth, happiness, history, nostalgia, work on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend I needed to put together a portfolio of sorts. I started digging through my archived files relating to different projects I’ve worked on since graduating from business school 3 years ago. A few ideas hit me as I sorted through the many documents I have saved, and all of the personalities that had [...]
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Posted in career, dreams, education, work on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ~ John A. Shedd This week I read Paul Tough’s op-ed in the New York Times about innovation in public education. As I begin the journey to transition my career in corporate product development to innovation in public education, I’ve [...]
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