(this lengthy post is a story, an amazing, never ceases to stun me sequence of events in my life, true story)
(Okay, that’s me 30 pounds ago – I LOST the 30) leaning over to shake author and TED Global Speaker Dan Pink’s hand after my TED talk in Oxford, England in 2009.)
Never say never because HOPE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.
By that I mean never say miracles never happen. Never say “It won’t get better.” Miracles happen and it does get better. And yes, “Hope does find a way.”
Three years before …

Maybe it was Kevin Costner’s lop-sided smile, or humble charm, or his puppy-dog eyes that got people’s attention. Or maybe it was his authenticity, or his passion for something no one else understood that got people to visit his baseball diamond in an Iowa corn field. But I don’t believe it was the field itself.

“Build it and they will come,” is arguably the most famous line from the 1989 movie, “Field of Dreams,” but what we remember is not Costner’s field, or his mantra. What we remember is his …

Many of you may have read my essay on Salon.com. I know so because a couple of you wrote me and expressed an interest in what the van looked like. Well, here she is. In her finer days – like back in 2009, she cleaned up well. But in two years she’s gone downhill. The defroster doesn’t work. The brakes need replacing and there’s about $800 worth of work that needs to be done to get her on the road again. It’s still a comfortable place for me – more …

US and Swedish officials aren’t talking about what have been responsible for the massive bird and fish kills in at least three different locations, but the conspiracy theory community worldwide is secretly ecstatic as the warnings they’ve been posting for decades are suddenly becoming real. Christian fundamentalists are referring to the Bible’s prediction of “fear of what is falling out of the skies.”  Sites like PrarieGhost are listing incidents throughout history where everything from frogs, blood and other items have fallen out of the sky.
Prairie Ghost reports:

In 1833, something …

No picture has torn at my heart more than this one taken last month after a woman’s dog broke its leash and ended up in the water off of what looks like a very chilly pier. A German tourist strips to his tighty-whities and jumps in the water to save this small dog. I know MY heart would have been breaking if I’d been this distraught woman. But the stranger rescues the dog and I assume, gets warm and dry as well as a hug!
Anyway, I put the photos …