It’s Graduation Season here in New England. I can’t even guess how many colleges are within 30 minutes of our house. Of course my alma mater Smith College is the most special to me, but there are dozens of others. This week I’m seeing families getting together, bunting and banners announcing congratulations, and alums flooding …
I’m back from a week in England and next week I will be back on Vedge Your Best Podcast in another solo episode, but this week we have my third dream guest in three weeks… Ellen Kanner is the author of Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner. What a …
Wanderlust much? At Vedge Your Best we have tickets for an “educational” trip to Northern England and London at the end of April. Plant Based and Vegan travel are perennial topics for my clients. So this season as I book guests for the Podcast, we are going to incorporate some ideas and inspiration to …
Half-Time I make an effort to avoid sports references because my level of ignorance on the subject usually complicates even the most straightforward metaphor. Half Time however seems to belong to the world of pop culture, where I have more secure footing. Half time is in fact the only thing I know about the Super …
We tend to think of the brain as a single entity, but there are a number of structures and one of the more mischievous of them is the amygdala. One of the 2 parts of the amygdala is shaped and sized somewhat like an almond, from which it gets its Greek name. But this small …
Time and lack of time come up ALL the time in virtually every conversation. It’s time.Not the right time.Is it time?Time is money.Time is just dragging.Where do I find the time?He has all the time in the world.It’s about time.I’m just killing time.She wastes so much time.They don’t respect my time.Where did the time go?Why …
Want more success?You probably need to double or triple your rate of failure. Failure is one of those emotions most of us have learned to avoid, and there are so many ways of avoiding it. Easy entertainment – food, drink, TV, video games, and online shopping.Playing small – keeping your sites on things you already …
This won’t hurt a bit. We’ve heard it said and we’ve probably said it too – “This won’t hurt a bit.” And the voice in the back of our head responds – “Sure it won’t hurt a bit, it will hurt a LOT!” Right from the beginning we humans think things shouldn’t hurt and at …
So yesterday we discussed “murdering our darlings.”Today? Ugly babies. I am a newly minted grandmother of one exquisitely handsome grandson (his mother may be reading this) but there are occasionally, so one understands, ugly babies. In his 1994 book on creativity* Ed Catmull (coFounder of Pixar and later president of Disney animation) writes about the …
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, writer and lecturer at Cambridge University on the subject of language and literature appears to have been the source of the aphorism, “ Murder your darlings.” “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to …
