Our next big anniversary is coming. I have two years to prepare. What is a year made of? How about twenty-eight of them? I’ve been married (to the same person) for exactly that amount of time, as of today. While many people all over the world share the same milestone…

Why the geometry of finite space calms and motivates us I was in a Zoom meeting the other day when someone said she missed her office building. I had a moment of mental sneering (yeah, right, like a toothache!) but then a few folks on the call heartily agreed with…

How to say goodbye and good luck to our college kids. Again. School. It conjures up excited voices, the scraping of chairs, the banging of books or laptops, and the ringing of the bell. Mostly, it conjures up the image of little kids. But what if the kid is shaving…

How to find the things that should get all our attention It’s hard to define, but we know it when we see it. Singularity of purpose. It’s in the eyes of those people who are hell-bent on exactly one thing. One. Thing. Making the perfect steak. Running the perfect mile…