Curiosity Re-Wires Your Brain for Change

Curiosity Re-Wires Your Brain for Change

I penned a recent blog post about personality particulars. In today’s missive, I’d like to ponder curiosity, a trait my husband and I have in common, but our relatives in Elsewhere USA don’t share. I know because we’ve just returned from a visit and, as usual, few...
Fake Future Fracas Averted

Fake Future Fracas Averted

Pardon this humble brag as entry to a blog post: My husband and I have pro-level social skills. Part of this expertise comes from our careers. His as a sales and marketing manager and mine as a speech-language pathologist. We can read body language, note tone of...
The 30-second rule

The 30-second rule

Fearing of public speaking is often cited as fear numero uno when such lists are made  – and what’s more public that social interaction topped by talk. It might be true that everyone alive anxious about making small talk with other peeps… Small talk...
Silence is Golden

Silence is Golden

Silence is very good for you. Noise, not so much. Stress, insomnia, heart disease—all possible adverse results of the world’s screaming, relentless, insidious, invasive. The cacophony of opinions, endless chaos and catastrophes – both man- and Mother...
Curiosity Re-Wires Your Brain for Change

Easy-Peasy Life

As a well-funded retiree – that is, reliant neither on Social Security nor the whims of stocks — I have an easy-peasy life. A life that flows, like canoeing down a river, one mile leads to the next, Tuesday follows Monday, obey the rules, portage around...