Fear is Holding Us Back If you haven’t seen the movie, Defending Your Life, you should. It is an incredibly intelligent Albert Brooks comedy from 1991, starring Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. I don’t know many people who remember the movie, and that’s unfortunate. For me, this was a bellwether story. It voiced something that I…
Make the Smart Gambles I was lying in bed Wednesday morning at 2:00 a.m., awake and sore. I was into the third day of recovering from a bad bout of a vicious food poisoning. Primary suspect: Huevos Rancheros. Location: A Mexican restaurant in the center of Amsterdam. After lying in bed for the better part…
Is failure your path to freedom? “I can’t…” Can’t is a four-letter word. “I shouldn’t.” Who says? “But what about…” Eliminate the word “but” from your vocabulary. Replace it with “and.” “What about” has its place during the active planning and execution of an idea – not the avoidance of your dream. “What will they…
I have a confession to make. The only things I really know for sure are the things I’ve done wrong. I am in my 50s now; and I am old enough to realize that almost everything I thought I knew as a child, a teenager, and as a young adult, changed at some point. When…
Webs of Belief I was reading the March 13 New Yorker Magazine Tuesday evening. I was working from home during the snowstorm on Tuesday, and I treated myself to curling up with the actual magazine with a nice glass of red wine. I’m one of those people who start at the very beginning. I read…
Patient Fabulous was freshly back from her trip to South America. She is an independent health consultant in Brooklyn, and has been for some six or seven years. The last six or seven years have not been easy on Fabulous. Despite her passion and expertise, she has struggled with financial solubility for most of her…
It was the most awkward moment in the history of the Oscar Ceremonies. Two minutes of elaborate thank yous in, the cast of La La Land was semi-ceremoniously pushed aside for the actual Best Picture award winners, the cast of Moonlight. The crazy thing is, I almost never watch these things. I usually find out the…
It may seem like I’m jumping the gun, but the middle of February is the perfect time to start thinking about building up your summer bod – especially if you’ve injured your spine. I decided to share five exercises that, if you have a back injury, you must master before you begin a more aggressive…