Sometimes when you break something in a store, then they make you pay for it. I remember hearing something similar when Colin Powell noted the Pottery Barn rule of “you break it, you bought it.” Although, the phrase goes further back than Pottery Barn, supposedly. The phrase “If you break it, you’ve bought it” was reportedly first […]
A while back when I was in graduate school getting my PhD in psychology, there were some cool psychology research studies that looked at how people said goodbye to each other at airports. The studies would look at how long people hugged for, who tended to hug, […]
I don’t know if this occurs in the corporate training world, but in non-profits, almost all trainings start off with an icebreaker. These can run the gamut from telephone game to unraveling a big ball of twine with your fellow training comrades-in-arms. These are meant to build rapport […]
We Are Entangled: We are Smitten You blossom, I stand bare You blush, I keep gray You wow, I lie desiccated You rise, I lend support You lean in, I buttress You reach out, I extend You complicate matters, I clarify You scream outloud, I whisper We are […]
I love life with all of my being The years have been a complex hard-fought journey Yet my calcified bones have found a zest for living But you make me want to die In that moment of fierce hatred I feel wounded, empty, and alone like a punctured […]
Elegant Tempting Fullfilling Warm-bodied The way a spontaneous relationship should be
