Nobody Wants to Join This Club

Last week, we joined one of those clubs nobody wants to join. When Jerry's urologist opened up his laptop in his office last Tuesday afternoon, he glanced at the biopsy report and said, "Uh, oh." We knew. And we quickly learned about Gleason numbers, and brachytherapy and radical prostatectomy. None of which we wanted to …

Who Makes It Happen?

"Go, make something happen.” That was Seth Godin's charge to his first graduating class of nine in his informal MBA program. Godin is the author of TRIBES, a highly regarded marketing book. That phrase reminds me of the times I’ve talked to psychotherapy clients who were trying to “make something happen”—but it wasn’t working. They were …

Long-Standing Shelters

How long do you expect the house you live in to stand? I walked by a twenty-year-old Cape Cod this morning, already looking shabby. Our hundred year old bungalow, with lots of loving attention, looks better. A key difference is the materials. The Cape Cod is sided in vinyl, our cottage is painted redwood, the …