Dreams, goals, and plans

Sharing our dreams and goals, setting achievable plans to reach our goals, building dreams that align with our values and strengths, and more

assortment of ice cream cones laid out on parchment paper with various toppings, sticky like the fly paper of midlife crisis

I’m Stuck, You’re Stuck, We’re All Stuck, so…Let’s Go Get Ice Cream? 

Confession: I’ve been avoiding this blog. But it weighs on me—maybe not as heavily as an albatross, maybe more like a spunky crow, that squawks in my ear about how much money I paid to sustain this site, gives me ideas for posts, grunts that I’m not writing them, and if I’m writing them, that […]

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Lake among mountains where I camped on my 39th birthday

Taking Inspiration from the Mysterious Ways and Play of Ideas

I thought my idea was pretty clever. I knew it was impractical. And so when the older, retired lawyer cast a bemused, mildly exasperated glance over at his older, retired paralegal wife after I shared my idea with them, I wasn’t surprised. My idea was based on my experience on mountain summits. Unless I’m skiing,

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Neat rows of clocks all telling the same time

“Timing is Everything”: Some Considerations on Doing Things out of Sync

Table of Contents Socially appropriate timing Timing is everything, the old adage goes. Usually it’s applied to relationships and lucky breaks—stories of unrequited love might contain an element of the timing not being “right,” and lucky breaks often are attributed to fortuitous timing. But “timing” in these cases maybe isn’t the right word. The words

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