We are in the crush of Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday and get the business to-do list done in the next four weeks. Don’t forget to add a little kindness. This year especially, we are stressed by the threat of COVID-19 and the related economic uncertainty. Studies have shown that complaining may permanently rewire your brain to be more negative. Be patient with the elderly woman fumbling ahead of you in line, the cashier who is working behind a mask and a plexiglass shield, the

The world is heavy this Thanksgiving 2020. We are isolated and divided. The economy is shattering. And yet, I remain thankful. My family is safe and we are managing in the altered reality. I am still supported by a great team – Gaynor, Jennifer, Bob. I have continued to help small business owners. The work is often winding down a business rather than starting one, but I feel useful. There are vaccines in the works. Hopefully, this time next year, the shut-downs will be behind

Our family watched the movie Apollo 13 this weekend, a story about getting three astronauts home after their spacecraft is damaged nine minutes into the mission. To us, the hero of the story is Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly, who was scrubbed from the mission because he was potentially exposed to German measles. He was understandably dejected and angry to miss the mission. He was then called upon to invent a re-entry procedure in the damaged spacecraft. He went from self