Change You have probably heard that moving and divorce are listed as the two most traumatic experiences for a human being. Luckily neither is the topic of this newsletter. I wanted to use these as examples that demonstrate the difficulties significant changes bring. I wonder if we are so distraught or apprehensive about changes because [...]
How To Trick Your Mind It has gotten so busy that I am finding myself in dire need to schedule absolutely everything. I’ve been retained as an expert witness in an industry dispute and this project has consumed a lot of my time. The Photosecrets subscriber list has grown to over 1300 (we’ve added 250 [...]
Many of you have followed my blog entries and the short journey through my friends final three months. Dagmar, a friend for over 20 years, former room mate and witness of my daughter’s birth “took flight” last month after a courageous battle with cancer. Below I posted the video of the memorial service from this [...]
When You Encounter a Hater Have you noticed that most of the time when you like or dislike someone that the feeling is mutual? Science has studied this phenomenon and there are a number of criteria that factor into it, like scent, facial expression, body posture or voice. But sometimes this feature doesn’t seem to [...]
Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out. Lately it seems that the whole world has slowed down and everything is moving at a snail like pace. That is not how my life used to be! In the last ten years before I sold my company everything was on fast track. Instant results, instant [...]
It’s Wednesday and I am driving across town to see Dagmar. For those who have followed the last blog, she has been diagnosed as terminally ill in July. My first video was recorded on August 1 and you can see that the disease has taken a strong hold on her body. When I walked through [...]
Just ten days ago I received an email from a girlfriend of twenty years. Dagmar was one of my first contacts when I arrived in Los Angeles. Seventeen years ago she was one of two friends who were with me when my little baby girl was born in water at a birthing center along with [...]
I’ve been debating for the last two weeks. Should I talk about it, should I openly declare defeat, should I admit it didn’t work out, should I share the pain and the heartbreak? I haven’t told anyone, not my sister, not my mother and not many of my friends even know. I change my status [...]
About two weeks ago when I finalized my book proposal to drop it off with my literary agent Paul Levine I ran across a headline “Liberated and Unhappy.” The article talks about how we are wealthier, healthier and better but unhappier than we have ever been. Ouch! Today in the Los Angeles Times Meghan Daum [...]
Just this weekend I went to Santa Barbara to witness the wedding of a girlfriend of fifteen years. As she was walking down the aisle, or in her case down the stairs at the open air wedding area of her temple, she took her time. She stopped at each row, smiled and looked into the [...]
