What Navy SEALs Can Teach Us About Making Love Last
When I say “Navy SEALs” what comes to mind? I think elite. Even superhuman. Thanks to Hollywood and the media, chances are that the Navy SEALs elicit some kind of reverential response for you too. What you may not realize is that when you watch elite military operatives on the big screen, you only see…
Why Men Need Women
I was the first girl in my family in six generations. My grandmother Ernestina Padua would tease that she had waited a long time for me. Since as early as I can remember, she taught me that being a girl meant I had a little bit more of heaven inside me. She felt it was…
The True Universal Standard of Beauty
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso began his formal art training in 1888 at age seven. He continually refined and developed his art, experimenting with new styles and mediums every few years. He created over 50,000 drawings, paintings, engravings, sculptures and ceramics…
Why You Don’t Feel Loved (and What to Do About It)
“All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not.” ― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages When I was three I would sit cross-legged in front of the big wood-paneled TV waiting for my dad to get home. Each day he would bring me a gift…candy. My favorite were the…
How Changing Your Environment Changes Who You Are
“Context is decisive.” ~Werner Erhard In 1964 Harvard professor Robert Rosenthal conducted an experiment. He told a set of elementary school teachers that based on an intelligence test, 20 percent of their students were particularly likely to blossom. Little did the teachers know that the students indicated were chosen at random. What happened? Over the…
What Happens When You’re Big
In college I taught wilderness survival in Montana. Now and then we’d return to camp and find a cow peacefully grazing our foodstuffs. When it noticed us it would freeze, mid-chew, as though we might somehow miss her hulking mass amidst the tents. When you’re big, you get noticed. And it’s not always easy. Starting…
What Desmond Howard Can Teach Us About Relationships (and Life)
There I was at a swanky, invite-only speaker training at the Time Inc. offices on 6th Avenue. Retired Super Bowl winning athlete and ESPN broadcaster Desmond Howard’s turn came to give his talk. “Control the controllables…”, he began. He went on: “In nineteen eighty-(*mock coughs*) I was a freshman at the University of Michigan… A gentleman by…
Compare = Despair
“Non-anonymous social networks like Facebook “provide an ideal environment for the expression of the ‘hoped-for possible self’… This state emphasizes realistic socially desirable identities an individual would like to establish…” ~ Julie Beck, The Atlantic I turned off my Facebook account last June. I had just separated from my now ex-husband. My brain had left…
Meet the Martyr Princess
I grew up without a dad and wanting for a lot. My mom worked 70 hours a week as a waitress at a local hotel. As the oldest of four children, I raised all of us. This burden actually made incredibly capable, perseverant. My talent, resourcefulness and dedication help distinguish me in other areas. I…
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