by Margie | Jan 30, 2011 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
A quirky urge. A quiet murmur in your head. A queasy feeling in your gut. A subtle sense of foreboding. A subtle sense of foreboding or a profound yet explicable knowing that “this feels right”. That was the feeling I had soon after I began going out with...
by Margie | Jan 4, 2010 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Of course it doesn’t take the beginning of a new year to make a decision to start something new, make changes in how we are living our life or turn over a new leaf. We can do that any day of the year. But there is something about January 1st that makes it feel like a...
by Margie | Mar 20, 2009 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
A year ago today I awoke to a phone call telling me that my brother Frank had been in a serious motor bike accident; that, among other injuries, his spine had been very badly damaged and that it was extremely unlikely he would ever walk again. Needless to say the last...
by Margie | Dec 11, 2008 | Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
“You can tell a man is clever by his answers. You can tell he is wise by his questions” — Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel Laureate If I had a dollar for every opinion I’d heard over the last few months about what would solve the woes of the US...
by Margie | Nov 26, 2008 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his...
