I received several emails this weekend from people in my life addicted to drama, and several emails from people asking me what to do about the people in THEIR lives who are addicted to drama.
It must be the full moon.
Some people in our lives are healthier than others and just have a few weak spots that need shoring up and come to us looking for encouragement, not to be rescued. Others are people we should routinely ignore.
There’s a way to tell a difference. The ones I ignore tip their hand …

WARNING TO BUDDHISTS: GRAPHIC DEPICTION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF SQUASH BUGS.
Ugh! I went out to take my daily photos of my beautiful squash and they were COVERED IN SQUASH BUGS!!! (Anasa tristis) There were bugs screwing on the squash stems, crawling on every leaf, the wall behind the garden and even on the posts. (I’d post the screwing bug photos but this is a family site.)
Regardless, my squash was infested. This was the day I’d been dreading. The day I had to really kill some bugs and keep …

(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 …

Technology changes. People don’t. People have remained pretty much the same since early recorded history. The technology and the speed and way at which things get done may change - but human nature is human nature. This photo of newspaper headlines was posted in the street-corner window of a newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The entire series of photos may be viewed here.
In case you don’t remember, when we were teenagers and …

A new study shows that people who wash their hands with soap and water - literally - after making a decision, have fewer regrets than those who don’t wash up. Researchers theorize the act of “washing your hands of the decision” sends a subconscious message to the brain.
I’m struck, not so much by the study or the results, but by how powerful our brains are, how susceptible to superstition, thoughts, affirmations and actions we are. “As a man thinketh, so he is.” Wise men from Job and Solomon to …