Essays

Hard work mistaken for talent

One of several books that I have  been perusing recently is Erwin McManus’ 2014 The Artisan Soul, wherein Erwin beautifully describes the interplay between hard…

Won’t Becomes Can’t

Anne Frank, whose Holocaust diary was posthumously published as the famed Diary of a Young Girl, stated, “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. We…

The underused power of NO

“My name is no…my sign is no…my number is no…you need to let it go!” Don’t you love those words from Meghan Trainor’s song, “No”?…