FEUDS AND FLASHPOINTS
When my great uncle, John Calhoun Bell, was county attorney in western Colorado, the local doctor challenged him to a duel. It was 1876. Friends…
HANGING ON, LETTING GO, OR “LETTING GROW”
Some thirty years ago, an anxious parent removed the training wheels from Lance Armstrong’s tiny two-wheeler.
No doubt Lance wobbled, fell a few…
HAPPINESS AS A SURVIVAL SKILL
According to anthropologists, our brain architecture has changed little during the past 250,000 years. Our brains still carry strong primal survival…
HEALTHY WEALTH IN BUSINESS FAMILIES
Reprinted from Business Entities magazine, January-February 2000.
Era Warp
The Modern Era began with the 17th Century Enlightenment and ended…
INCENTIVE TRUSTS
“Medieval alchemists failed to turn lead into gold. Wealthy twenty-first century parents fear a reverse alchemy. Will their children transmute…
LEARNING TO SHARE
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MID-LIFE CRISIS
We are happiest in our early years and again in our later years. We’re not so happy in mid-life. Or at least so says the research.
Mid-life can be…
MIDDLE PASSAGE: FROM MISERY TO MEANING IN MIDLIFE
Gerald Le Van’s Notes on James Hollis’ “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-life” Inner City Books, Toronto, 1993. ollis is a psychologist and heads the Jungian Society in Houston, Texas. He writes well but some readers may be turned off by his turgid colorful psychological literary style replete with references to mythology. These notes are for those readers.
MY NEW PARTNER: MR. AGE
“I’m turning the company over to my sons on January 1,” said the founder of a highly successful company with deserved pride. “And what will you do on…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 5: STRESS IS SOCIAL
Part V: Stress is Social
Medical science has begun to detail the biological pathways through which others get under our skin, for better or…