Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 11/25/07
We all want to give. We all want to help the poor. We want to take care of those in our community who cannot take care of themselves because we are, by nature, generous and caring and loving.
But what happens when we are generous and caring and loving to […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 12/16/07
We’ve all paid our dues–at some point–for the sake of our kids, muscling through the parental prerequisite ninety minutes of yet another disengaging children’s movie. Think “Lilo and Stitch” or “Curly Sue”…
On the other hand, we‘ve also experienced the moment, sitting in those same theater seats, when we […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise,  12/30/07
Tom Chiarella’s article about the power of silence (Esquire, 10/25/07) got me to thinking about how un-silent I am.
As Tom points out, we often fill in dead air in order to make the person across from us more comfortable. We talk to justify our reasons for doing what we […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise,  12/23/07
I stopped by my girlfriend’s house to bring her some holiday cheer in the form of terribly fattening and highly caloric cookies. She smirked a smile, the international symbol for “I’m really trying to watch my weight, but now I will have to eat these, you big jerk…but no—really—thank […]