Hello World, Happy Boxing Day! As I reflect on the year about to pass, and the one about to start, I’m drawn back to a question I often ask my coaching clients. “What would you do if you had no fear?” It is such a liberating question. As a survival instinct, every decision we make…
Hello World, One of my favorite story types to write are stories of ordinary people and the little moments in their lives that can mean so much. There is such a richness to the world around us, and so many stories that (for our loss) will die with the protagonist, destined never to be shared. …
. Waterloo Train station at 3:30 pm on a Tuesday is as glamorous as it sounds. The evening rush hasn’t started, so it is busy with tourists, lost souls, homeless people seeking respite from the cold Spring rain, and people like me whose schedules placed them here against their will. Two distinct, loud chimes sound…
I listened to an interesting podcast a few years ago (I believe it was Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, but it may have been a different one), where he discussed the fallacy of memory. In the experiment, they asked multiple people to write down details of what was happening after witnessing a significant event. In the…