After “chasing the money” for almost seven years—pursuing jobs in different fields, being perplexed about my next step in life, ending the work day by crying my eyes out and... Read more >>

How does one survive in the current financial crisis? The answer lies on creativity and in doing more with less. So everyday is an effort to get into a more mature way of handling money, and... Read more >>

I would have liked to believe there was something heroic about how I handled getting fired. I’d like to think I was Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok, or the Samurai falling on his sword. In La... Read more >>

I hate when people quote my own books to me. Not only do I cringe at the gap between whom I aspire to be and who I actually am. It pisses me off. Dan knew this, but after laying the traps, and... Read more >>

The rat, unfortunately, was not just my imagination. The rat was real. After calling Dan with the bad news, we had a mournful dinner at a fast-food restaurant and then headed towards the one place I... Read more >>

Long days passed before I could write again. Despite all my brave talk about surrender, I was too deep in the void to find my way to the computer. The one grace I had was that I could still read. From... Read more >>

Used to work for. Not long after the ebullient exchange of business cards at the panel’s end, I got word. At the end of the month, they were letting me go. The chairing of the panel at the... Read more >>

I quickly sent out a handful of networking emails before I could think about what I was doing, checking my heart to see if it truly had begun beating again. Miraculously, not only was my heart pumping... Read more >>

Emboldened by the story of Jacob, a thought begin forming in my mind so subtle, I’d almost missed it: Life is about to get interesting again! It wasn’t only Jacob who inspired this wisp... Read more >>

My birthday came and went, but this one felt different. I had, for starters, never imagined that I would be crossing this threshold so shy of my expectations of what my life was to be like at this... Read more >>