Stories tagged "lifelessons"

We are always trying to teach children -- teach them the rules, teach them how to behave, teach them skills. I have worked as a teacher for many years, and I also have two of my own children, so I have spent a...

life lessons, life stories...

I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about lies and the miserable bastard weasels who use them as tools for doing business and for controlling their social lives. One of the hardest lessons to learn, while I was sculpting my career, was how to deal with

Not sure if you’ve been following the micro-news or not… but our little town here nestled against the Sierra Nevada has been Earthquake Central for the last week or so. It’s gotten me thinking about what life is really all about, again. You know

He is the most perfect example of a man with the most few words, comin down to occasional mumblings and whispers. Yet, he was able to say what he wanted without causing a neighborhood disturbance. Well, he had caused a a million neighborhood disturbances

Just plowed through the old tax grind here. Spent several hours chasing down documents, digging through files, double-checking my math. Cuz I suck at math, you know. How I got through trig in high school is a mystery (let alone statistics and matrix th

Communicating with another human being is never simple. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, walk away. They’re dangerously wrong. In a broad sense, the population is roughly divided into 3 categories of cognitive processing: 1. Left-brain th

On 11 December 2007 author Terry Pratchett announced online and with glorious good humour that he’d been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease.

Really good article on the wisdom of experience. What would you tell your younger self now that you wish you knew then?

Let’s go deeper into storytelling, what d’ya say? And, if you’re still up for it, let’s do another exercise to get our chops honed to dangerous “street-wise salesmanship” levels. But first… let’s do some triage on the previous posts.