Here’s a two-minute video he made of me about how a question can illuminate a life. If you’re in the Portland or Seattle area, I highly recommend you reach out

June 16, 2024

Let me delightfully unveil a truth we all know deep down: we’ve been thoroughly brainwashed. Picture it: a world where perfection reigns supreme, where we chase after an ideal we

June 15, 2024

My friend SARK is a Succulent Wild Woman (the name of one of her books) and she laid this wisdom on me when we had a conversation last week. How

June 14, 2024

Impossible? Emma Thompson did it at age 62 on camera in the film “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” which I wrote about in this blog post a couple years

June 13, 2024

So, I went in search for another way I could determine if I was in the right business beyond just determining if I was in the bullseye of the Ikigai

June 12, 2024

But, with more than 5,000 folks who’ve experienced MEA’s programs, especially our Reframing Retirement online course and in-person workshops, I believe there are two key relationship variables that aren’t considered

June 11, 2024

Based upon recent global happiness data, the quarter-life crisis is a thing. When you become an adult, you move from a highly structured existence, likely in school or living with

June 10, 2024

Have you ever had the feeling that you really want to do something to make a difference in the world but don’t really know how to get started?  I want

June 9, 2024

After attending a week-long session at the Baja campus in January 2023, I decided to take the lessons learned and to bring them to my congregants, but with a twist.

It’s an honor to be in possession of such a bounty, but it’s also an obligation. Yes, I “mule” 20-25 books each time I travel to Baja or Santa Fe.

June 7, 2024

We live in a world in which strangers fall “in hate” all the time: the person who took your parking space at the mall, the idiot at the movie theater

June 6, 2024

We face some monumental societal problems and it’s easy to feel perplexed by how we’ll solve them. As a result, we feel a sense of modern despair and helplessness. But,

June 5, 2024