Monday Morning Mojo

This morning I awaken in La Jolla, California, where I will be working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It was founded in 1903 by members of the Scripps family and other community members as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego. In 1912 it joined the University of Southern California. The mission of Scripps […]

Any time I get to visit someplace close to the wild I spend some of my trip with Mother Nature. After running the Executive Leadership Council conference for the Associated General Contractors of America in Anchorage, Alaska, I was lucky enough to have an extra day and drove to Seward. The highway is one of

Proud to be with the Associated General Contractors of America helping to lead their Executive Leadership Conference – a great group of people. We are in Anchorage, Alaska, and gorgeous country surrounds us. It so happens that it is also the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. In Alaska the sun never sets!

The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin. It puts him in the

We never know our destiny until we can look back with 20-20 hindsight and see the long and winding road to this place and time.  It’s hard to tell whom we are going to end up with, in so many ways. When my daughter was in the Welfare Home for Children in New Delhi, she

I was sitting in a plane on the way to Chicago and – horrors! – I put my iPad in the seat pocket in front of me for a moment. Next time I thought of it I was on my way into the city in the back of a cab. Traffic was horrendous. It would

There are over 1,000 new domain suffixes coming to the World Wide Web. Soon the halcyon days of .com,.org, and .edu.will be gone; Instead will be bombarded by .london, .coffee. and .guitars among hundreds of others. I signed onto GoDaddy (my favorite purveyor of domain names) and was greeted by this: I did a search

When my son, Gabe, was a tiny tot I used to take him into the woods and ask him to listen to the tao. That was my way to listen through his ears. I would ask, What do you hear? I never knew what he would say. Birds. Wind. Trees. Here’s a picture of my

I certainly am no expert when it comes to the ancient art of Feng-Shui. I looked up the definition recently and came upon this, “a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy, and whose favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account when siting and

In the late 1980s I decided to become a storyteller. I parlayed my theater experience into one of the oldest art forms on the planet. I learned Beowulf, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Australian Aboriginal DreamTime myths, Native American teaching stories, and I made up my own tales, too. The picture at the right was taken in 1996 at my annual