The “Tonight Show” may be moving back to New York after all these years, but I always prefer to be be moving in the opposite direction – that is, back to southern California after a sojourn in the Big Apple.  That’s especially true when I’m leaving freezing precipitation behind and heading back to my cozy

Due to the recent inclement weather in New York, my flight home to San Diego was cancelled.  Led by my instincts (and perhaps influenced by an old friend’s passing just three days before), I looked at the departures sign in the terminal and decided to go wherever the next available flight would take me where

Last Sunday’s 50th anniversary observance of the Beatles’ arrival in America evoked a lot of memories for people of my generation and older, all of which made me smile. Admittedly, some are a bit muddled, and I might not know all the words to the songs (does anybody?) but I certainly remember the melodies and

Acting on a challenge from my daughter, I decided to mark the approach of a significant milestone in my life next month by creating a personal and professional timeline for myself. And I must say that doing so has been a really encouraging and even empowering experience, especially when I realize how much I may

I have always loved the Super Bowl — not really for the football, but for the annual ‘culture check’ they represent. This year I found the advertisements particularly interesting from one point of view: the growing number that were, on some level, attempting to evoke an emotional response, as opposed to simply aiming to make

For my first blog of 2014, I’ve decided to put together a list of 14 things that I’m hoping to do, or at least contribute to this year, without giving priority to any in particular.  Perhaps most important, I would like to hear from any readers of this blog who either have ideas about how

For most of my career I have been an advocate on behalf of causes that affect our health and well-being, ranging from the use of toxic pesticides and herbicides to growth hormones and antibiotics in milk to how the byproducts of the rendering industry impact the health of our pets. My newest mission in this

OK — let’s assume you’ve followed the advice and recommendations about reinventing yourself I offered in my last couple of blogs, and actually arrived at the point of mastering an entirely new field of endeavor. Where do you go from there? Hopefully, by this point you’ll have become a expert in your new discipline, or

Do you sometimes feel like you’re stuck in a rut, doing the same joyless job month after month and year after year? Like you’re stagnating professionally, trapped in an occupation or a position that no longer challenges or motivates you, yet afraid to rock the boat because of your dependency on the stable income the

I always love the period after Labor Day, which heralds the approach of the holiday season and reminds me to get seriously busy on whatever I’ve set my sights on accomplishing by the end of the year. This year, I am especially motivated, being once again in the process of reinventing and “rebranding” myself, and