Heh friends! Hello from the St. Louis airport and happy Summer Solstice! I’ve been at a conference all week, and by happy accident, my first night in town, I came…

Greetings from the darkest pit in the vitamin D-deprived days of winter in Seattle! Even when it’s light, which it rarely is, it’s not actually bright. It’s just dim. The…

These women. These badass, compassionate, tough, truth-telling, tenacious, loving women. My god! If you want to find out what happens in a place over 20 years, have lunch with newspaper…

Congratulations! We have nearly completed a 365-day crash course about life on Earth. Hard-won knowledge, my friends. Hard-won knowledge. A friend once told me: “Who cares about a knight in shining…

They may only invite me because I occasionally swear, but I'm still flattered and I always say yes. Last night, I gave a guest-lecture at Cal Berkeley-- a class of…

I was lucky enough to host a panel for the Association of Public Hospital Districts, which was held as part of the Washington State Hospital Association meeting. This was an…

I struggle to differentiate professional and personal lives. Not because I’m a workaholic, but because I literally don’t see much difference between them. Maybe this is more typical of “knowledge…

Sogni D’Oro is the Italian equivalent of “sweet dreams”—it’s literally wishing them “dreams of gold.” Having dreams of gold is exactly what you get when you buy a lottery ticket,…

Sherlock Holmes. Jeff Lebowski. Uncle Buck. These men are my life coaches now. My teenage children are figuring out who they want to be. Consciously or not, they are looking…

But if this email does find you, hello and happy summer solstice! I love how winter solstice makes us hibernate and how summer solstice makes us play. It’s especially true…