Some days you just can’t ride the pony. No matter how many goals, road-maps, or shots of sunshine you slide down your throat, you are just not getting on. Not today. But….you should right? So…you make yourself move forward, you push through it, you put on your riding gear and you tell yourself you CAN, YOU WILL… and you…are…hating…every…stinking…rotten…minute…and dang…you… Read More
The Addiction of Conforming
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. ~Abraham Maslow During my hairdresser days, I had a continuing conversation with some clients that went something like this. CLIENT: I want something new and different. Something… Read More
A Spring Rain
It’s raining as I write. A dark, low, rumbling thunderous rain. Not frightening. The sort of rain that rolls in like a vacuum and cleans away the winter dust. It has been an ugly, long week of rain, tornado warnings and high winds, and yet, we soldier on here, not flinching in our schedules, not hesitating to make our plans… Read More