Have you ever had someone make a decision that was so deeply disappointing to you that you just wanted to walk away from the relationship? I'm not talking about someone being disloyal to you, or acting in a hurtful way to you, but rather a person that you care about doing something that you thought […]

The incident was small, something I could easily just brush off. But, and this was a huge but for me, there was an insensitivity, arrogance and lack of loyalty that surrounded the incident that I found very troubling. The incident caused me to think deeply about who I am, the importance of, and rules for,

I have never been much motivated by money. Don't get me wrong I have worked for money and on several occasions I worked doing jobs that I didn't much like just so I could make money (a fact that I'm not particularly proud of), but money has never been all that inspiring to me. As

"At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. In fact, success, money and power have practically become synonymous. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power — one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back. Money and power

I have become fascinated by my beliefs and how I have come to believe what I believe. My fascination has increased recently as I have been discovering that many of my beliefs have been wrong… that is they are contraindicated by actual evidence. For example have heard, and came to believe, that infertile couples who

Christmas Eve of 2011 after a wonderful feast with my family at my sister's house, I drove my 95 year old grandmother to her home. On the way grandma thanked me for going so far out of my way to take her home and she mentioned how she didn't like being a burden. She was

On  Wednesday, January 4th 2012 Karla Villatoro, the marketing director at the Century City Mall forwarded an e-mail to David Schienberg, the Creative Director at GT Events in Los Angeles. GT Events had managed the "Free Photos with Santa" promotion for Microsoft that Christmas season. Of course I was one of the Santa's. After receiving

Friday night, September 16th, 1988. I was in San Francisco standing barefoot in the parking lot at the airport Marriott. I could smell the wood smoke and see huge bon fires. One man pushing a wheel barrow and another with a shovel came and added new coals to the 10 foot lane of smoldering coals