Category Archives: Writing
Right Brain-Left Brain
Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” argues that three current economic forces — abundance, Asia, and automation — are pulling us away from our love affair with left-brain directed thinking and towards right-brain directed values. Left-brain thinking is responsible for the … Continue reading
Exceptionalism-Perfectionism
The instruction of my childhood was: be exceptional. It was the 11th commandment. The 12th was be perfect. The evangelical Christian church said: we have the one and only way. We, like the Hebrews of the Old Testament, are the … Continue reading
“And Mary took all these things and pondered them in her heart.”
In the Julie and Julia blog, Julie cooked everyone of Julia Child’s recipes and gave us the report. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (first published 1942; Back Bay Books, 1998) is going to be my spirit cookbook. In one swoosh of a … Continue reading