From the time my son was three until he was twenty-three, we took a weeklong father-son trip every summer. It became our rhythm, a pause in the year where it was just the two of us. A handful of those years brought us to Mount Mitchell, NC. There is something about that place. The cool […]
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When I travel, everything changes: new city, new room, new rhythm. I find it’s easy to lose my center in the midst of all that movement. Over time, I’ve learned I need something simple and consistent to stay grounded, so I created a small ritual I use every time I arrive in a hotel room.
When I was a kid, my dad took me camping in all kinds of weather. Not just the sunny days, but the cold ones, the gray ones, the ones when rain poured on our tent and thunder rolled across the sky. Some of my best camping trips in the Adirondacks involved huge claps of thunder
Last weekend I was in San Diego. That’s me in the photo with the sunset behind me. Today I’m in Chicago, where I am spending three days with another great client Travel has been part of my work for decades, and I still feel the same spark every time I step out of my house
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Last week in downtown Bethesda outside a coffee shop there was a horse tied up. Not a sculpture, but a real horse, reins slack, calmly standing while the weekday crowd streamed past with laptops and lattes in hand. In the middle of our efficient, well-scheduled, productivity-optimized world, this enormous, beautiful creature stood there, completely at
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A few years ago I started writing reviews on Yelp. Restaurants. Local spots. Experiences that mattered. Not because I had to. Because it was fun. Just recently, I was invited into Yelp Elite. This means I’ll get invites to tastings and meet other reviewers. Something unexpected happened. I began to enjoy the practice more deeply.
Today, we honor the shared birthday legacy of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. They led in different centuries, through different storms. Yet they had striking qualities in common. Both carried immense responsibility without theatrics. Both endured criticism without surrendering to it. Both held a long view when others were trapped in the moment. Both understood
I want to lift up an interview that is both urgent and enduring: “Bryan Stevenson on why Black history is under attack,” a powerful interview sponsored by The Grio (whose mission is to inform, amplify, entertain, and empower Black America. Let me say as a white person, they are informing and empowering me as well.)
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I was flying across the country when Mount Rainier came into view. Rising above everything around it, unmistakable. You don’t have to know its name to recognize its presence. It commands the landscape simply by being fully what it is. It reminded me of something I’ve learned about leaders who make an out-sized impact on
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Here on the East Coast of the USA, we are in the middle of a serious snow and ice storm, the kind that slows everything down and makes the world feel smaller and quieter. Yesterday afternoon, with the sleet coming down, I looked out through our deck and saw a bright red cardinal perched beside
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