Events

  First of all – I apologize. I have not written for some time. Now – for my post… A belief in the essential importance of PLAY in our lives is something I have known for some [...]

We are all gifted! Remember those kids in school who were in the “Gifted and Talented” program? I was never one of them. But, at some point in my life journey, I have discovered that I do indeed [...]

I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the 29th Annual Convention of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor in Mesa, AZ earlier in April. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to [...]

My webinar on Resilience is on YouTube! Check it out. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. ~Robert Frost Cancer is a very powerful and proficient [...]

I had the privilege and pleasure to spend about 10 hours in the presence of Jon Kabat-Zinn a couple if weeks ago. It was exactly the experience I needed at that time, a worthwhile reminder of the [...]

I hiked Mt. Whitney in California in August. It was an adventurous experience initiated by a question posed at a speech given to the Edina Rotary Club in October, 2013. I had shared some of the [...]

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road. ~ Henry Ward Beecher At the National Wellness Conference, I participated in a breakout [...]

“Connection is the currency of wellness.” John Travis, an elder statesman of the National Wellness Institute, stated that clearly and authoritatively in his remarks at the awards banquet held [...]

I have the privilege of sharing this content two times this month.  In my opinion, the handout, designed for audience distribution at SURVIVORville 2015 in Nashville, TN; and the National [...]

I recently had the privilege of speaking at both IgniteMinneapolis 8 and bushCONNECT 2015. Both were exhilarating experiences – 5 minutes/20 slides (that advanced automatically – talk [...]