Stories & Spirals

Have you ever quit something because you were embarrassed? I have. I can remember times with music when I forgot the words to a song I was singing and felt humiliated. It […]

Do-overs. Remember those as a kid? Something didn’t go your way, so you called a do-over. Wiped it clean. Tried again. I think we still love do-overs as adults. We just give […]

Why would I say I’ve earned the right to eat certain foods? Why is that even a common thought? Why do we give ourselves cheat days on diets? Why do we work […]

Life is short. That’s one little piece of conventional wisdom I’ve stopped believing. There was a time when that idea served me. It made me think, I’d better start filling my life. […]

I had the good fortune of visiting Walt Disney’s childhood home in Marceline, Missouri. It’s a quaint town. I was told Main Street USA was inspired, in part, by the main street […]

A few days ago, I had one of those moments we all hope for. The kind of epiphany that doesn’t just change your mind. It changes how you see yourself. I’ve been […]

Standing in the Badlands, I found myself asking a question. What happened here? What kind of cataclysmic event shaped this landscape? A heat wave? A flood? A drought? Meteorites? Thousands of years […]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A movie star. I wanted to be a performer. I wanted to be on stage, or I […]

Goosebumps. Those moments, to me, mean spirit energy is speaking to me. It’s saying, “Pay attention to this moment.” It’s real. It’s meaningful. It matters. It usually happens when I’m experiencing another […]