I finally finished my book, “GROW. Life Lessons From My Garden.”
I made the poster (left) from one of the pages in the book. Most of the lessons in the book are things I’ve known, but didn’t really understand until I started tilling the soil. As a writer it made me appreciate the fact that if you really want to reach an audience you should use metaphors they can appreciate, and not just metaphors you’re familiar with.
Until you till and sow and work a garden I don’t think you really …

With every other best selling business book I hear about being about “leadership, customer service, and respecting or honoring your tribe,” the outpouring of admiration and regrets over Steve Job’s stepping down from his position at Apple bothers me deeply.
Those people we admire most, the business leaders we believe to be most admirable and trustworthy are praising a narcissist, one of the most emotionally devastating and abusive personalities known to man. Only the sociopathic serial killer does more damage to society.
Don’t mistake being a great innovator and genius for being …

Steve Jobs is stepping down from Apple, no longer able to carry on with the task of running the place. While the whole world mourns his creativity, his technical contributions to the world, which admittedly staggers the imagination, I notice that the tears are for his creations, not so much for him personally.
Given his history of repeatedly screwing over his best friend Steve Wozniak, the admitted “smarter” of the two boy genius’ I often wonder if the genius of Apple all these years was really Steve, or if it was …

In Anytown, USA or Anytown, The World, there’s a widget factory that employs 100 people. There’s production, shipping, administrative, sales, all the departments any factory would have. Things are going along as always until one day one of the administrative people gets sick. She’s the girl who orders all the supplies for the supervisors. It’s no big deal because she keeps things well-stocked and no one misses her.
The folks on the production floor hear about her illness and shrug.
“Doesn’t affect me,” they say, going on about their business.
The folks in …

Anger is scary. Especially if it is extreme anger–better known as rage.
Anger is saying to the jerk who cuts you off in traffic, “You freaking moron!” Rage is chasing him down and running him off the road with your car, or trying to. Or it’s following him into a parking lot then beating him up as he gets out of his car. It happens every day. Rage.
On the anger spectrum, annoyance is the least extreme, anger the mid-range and rage the ultimate extreme. Rage can’t be controlled by our thoughts. …