“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear...

I hate saying the words “I don’t know”, and I bet you do too. As a child I learned that “I don’t know” is a statement of weakness with judgement and shame cl...

On September 11th, 2001 the twin towers that were the World Trade Center fell. I was there to see it. Working only a few short blocks away placed me at the e...

“I saw all the people behind their masks. I saw through them and there was suffering.” Vincent Van Gogh I always wore a mask, until the mask became me. Stitc...

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” Wayne Dyer Changing my perspective on the scenes of my life has been one of the m...

“In solitude, where we are least alone” Lord Byron Entering ‘rehab’ for drugs and alcohol was one of the most terrifying and rewarding experiences of my life...

Connection, that feeling of knowing I am here, intimately coupled to my essence and to the ever bending and twisting landscape around me, has always been my ...

“Et lux in tenebris lucet”- and the light shineth in the darkness. The struggle, laying like scattered gravel on the road. Moving carefully, I step through t...

“shame threatens the soul. Its signs appear on the face ‘like a flash of fire.’” Annibale Pocaterrra, sixteenth-century physician and poet Where do the roots...