I’m seeing more and more of the power of positivity in the world as if, even in the challenges that are Covid, we’re taking action to make the world a better place. One of the benefits of the Long Tail of Covid? Just the other day, I saw a customer at my neighborhood Rite Aid walk around the store thanking the workers for coming into work. She showered them with appreciations to the point that they became a bit embarrassed...

Note: This Resilient Wednesday is a modified version of the same end of year message from last December. Giving the current state of our lives, I felt this message is worthy so that we may recognize the enormous successes we’ve had this year and how we can move forward with our heads held high. 2021, a year that we hoped would be different from 2020, proved that we could still survive a year that was so damaging, and which must...

The sun reached her nadir yesterday at 10:58 AM EST as many people were preparing for their holiday celebrations. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we begin our 6-month journey back to the warmth of the summertime. It’s no wonder that we are built for resilience as nature showers her experiences of recovering from the depths of winter’s darkness towards the fullness of summer’s long days like the clock that she is in our lives. At our home...

We’re hearing a lot about resource management with all the supply chain issues. Not enough trucks, too much cargo sitting out in the ocean, too few workers to process and deliver. All this strains the system and the system responds by moving slowly, which is not a condition we are familiar with in the United States.  This is a perfect example of failed resilience at the macro level. Several recent articles have suggested that we need a more resilient supply chain but...

Yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day, the 80th anniversary of the day that “lives in infamy”. It was also my father’s birthday. On that fateful day in 1941, my mother was preparing a birthday party for her fiancée. It was going to be a surprise party with lots of friends and family attending the celebration.  The party was far from joyous and like other young men and women of that era, my dad’s enlistment was just a few weeks away. My...

The first Broadway musical I attended as a child was Do Re Mi starring Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. My dad had won 2 orchestra seat tickets from work for he and mom but traded them in for balcony seats so he could take the whole family. I remember seeing Phil Silvers looking up at the balcony and thinking that he was looking directly at me. After that, I was hooked on Broadway musicals. The Theater lost a giant last...