Prompted by @stellabelle's post regarding themes for the new year, and by an old column, The Moral Bucket List by David Brooks, I've decided that 2017 will be the Year of Living. I've been drifting for

So, little more than two weeks ago I decided to set up some ambitious goals to move me out of my comfort zone and I posted them on my Steemit blog. Today I’m doing an audit of my progress at the mid-way

Inspired by James Altucher's Idea Machine, I came up with the idea of running my own personal experiments. In some cases, one-day experiments. I plan to begin on the first day of September and have created

I was slightly alarmed by the piece published in Vice Magazine as I have a few reservations of my own. Last week I had encouraged several colleagues (all of whom are journalists working in traditional

I attended a barbeque earlier tonight. The host was gracious, the guests were funny, the food was great. Within ten minutes of arriving I wanted to leave.  I stayed an entire hour and pretended to

I'm torn about whether or not to move my blog, presently located on Wordpress.org, onto Steemit.  I've built it up to nearly 1800 followers since I started it three years ago and have grown a loyal

Many of us who grew up in dysfunctional families never learned to set boundaries. As a daughter of strict immigrant parents, I learned that if I tried to assert myself as an individual, my boundaries were

This is not a proper blog post but I've just signed up and wanted to leave a little something so that I’d be challenged to return tomorrow. My goal is to post once or twice a week on subjects that fascinate