On Sunday I participated in the 34th annual American Cancer Society Bike-a-Thon from Philadelphia to May’s Landing, New Jersey. I completed the 63 mile ride (which includes the perk of riding across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge) in a little over 4 hours of riding time. While I’ve done the ride several times, I haven’t done…
Fast Company Magazine has a recent article by this title that begs the answer to the question is, quite literally “yes”! A study of 6,000 British male office workers over a four-year period, published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that employees who felt their supervisors treated them fairly had a 30 percent…
After a weekend of drenching rains in the Mid-Atlantic which have proceeded to flood the main floor of my house, I thought I’d use my periodic bouts of reacting (versus calm responding) to add a humorous yet helpful post to the blog. For background – in 2003, the whole first floor flooded (we have no…
Last night I had the huge pleasure of attending a book signing and reading for Alison Bechdel’s book Fun Home. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Alison is the author of the superb comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For . The comic strip has been a favorite of mine for years and…
Last weekend I had the joy of attending a member retreat at my favorite spiritual playground Columcille. This place of monoliths, myth, mystery, and general spiritual journeying has been a most special place to me for almost 10 years now. In fact, my partner and I had our commitment ceremony there and have since considered…