Monday Morning Mojo

Nobody can call me a musician, but I do love to listen. As my beautiful wife, Laura Baron is an accomplished artist I consider myself her complement in one very important way:  I am an appreciative music listener. I love to go to her shows. I have other favorite artists. Two of my longtime beloved

Yes, I know the top of my head is cut off in the picture above. But, it’s the only record I have of going out for burgers with my daughter, Ruchi, in our pajamas. Laura was dropping our son off at college and it seemed like a fun thing to do. It was! Ever do

While in the Pacific Northwest this last week, my son and I were surrounded by the smoke from wildfires on all sides. Seattle and Portland exceeded industrial China’s pollution levels. We traveled north across the border into Canada where the smoke was less but still palpable. When we brought up Canadian maps that portrayed the

I am just getting around to watching The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. It came out in 1984. It was a flop, but achieved cult status when it was released on video cassette. It may not seem like much to you, but as a fan of interdimensional science fiction, it was remiss

My canine companion, Sita, was hurt in a conflict with an unknown animal in our backyard two weeks ago. She came into the house with deep lacerations on her front and back leg. She is okay now, after a trip to the emergency room, a ton of antibiotics and some time spent inside the infamous

Wu wei is a concept that comes from taoism, and literally translated it means action through non-action. This is often interpreted to mean doing by not doing anything. This interpretation reminds me of managing people, which I did for many years at the World Bank. When there was a minor issue, a manager’s first course

Writing today from up in the sky on my way to Orlando from Chicago. As fortune would have it I am in the midst of 15 days of back-to-back engagements, mostly at home in the DC area, but also in the two cities mentioned above plus Las Vegas. Consulting, as a colleague says, is lumpy.

When I was a little boy my mother earned her PhD studying the precognitive development of blind children. Her graduate work included studying theories of child development. I learned from her that play can be understood as the activities children engage in to make sense of their world and orchestrate important aspects of their own