Mueller’s ambiguous findings about obstruction offered one big aha! If you aren’t hiding your flirtations with legality, are they prosecutable offenses? Remember that Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in NYC and get away with it? Maybe, I now realize, there’s method …
There. I said it. In a society where “whatever” is the only safe ground in a sea of fanatic polarization, I confess to loving morality and moral dilemmas. Not the Tab A into Slot B morality of matching actions to credo and taking the safest …
When I was 24, I had a trip (psychedelic) that changed my life. My fear-filled mind opened and a trusting, connected, honest, kind, joyful being trapped inside my zipped up persona took over. Sitting for hours with a group of friends, I narrated this vision …
Hope for the future? Big question. If the future looks bleak, do I change or do I just “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die”? If change is possible, what I should do with my limited waking hours (Paul Hawken’s list is a …
Hey, do I look good in money? Does it show my best features and hide my worst? Can I wear it anywhere? Substitute “this dress” and everyone has said or heard it sometime. Becoming means beautiful. It also means an ongoing process of change, and can mean …
About 20 years ago, in a classroom at Seattle Pacific University, as I lectured about money from the perspective of Your Money or Your Life, I finally hit the limit of my patience. A man with a patchy beard leaned back in his chair and …
This story unfolded on the eve of Black History Month, and it set the stage for learning in a more humble way about racism in our country and world. Preface: Whack-a-Mole Definition of Whack-a-Mole: A typical arcade Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a large, waist-level cabinet …
Happy New Year whoever is out there reading this, whenever. This letter to the FIRE (financial independence retire early) community deserves re-posting here. It announces my migration to new horizons – destination as yet unknown. I’ve given 2 solid years to the 2018 update of …
Deep in my box of VHS videotapes were some excerpts from the 1992 and 1995 appearances on Oprah. You will notice I’m wearing the same purple dress. I was making a point. You don’t need a new outfit for every occasion. And I bought it …
In the heyday of Your Money or Your Life’s original best-seller status, Joe rarely made public appearances. He agreed to join me in 1993, though, for a talk to 200 people at the venerable Elliot Bay Bookstore in Pioneer Square in our home town, Seattle. …
