“Unemployment opens its mouth at the end of each job, and you think, No one will ever hire me again, and then they do. I haven’t ever managed to feel that I was equipped for the next new job. I’ve always had an appetite for each new thing and also a big dose of insecurity [...]

When she gets home from school, I often ask my seven-year-old daughter Maddy to tell me a story. Sometimes she has one at the tip of her tongue and other time she says “well, nothing happened today.” “Nothing?” I ask. “That’s hard to believe. You just sat at your desk all day staring out the [...]

What do we mean when we talk about our “calling”?  It’s a bit of a strange term and one that some people have difficulty embracing because of the religious baggage it sometimes carries.  I don’t know if each of us has a specific calling that points us to a really narrow non-negotiable path (that seems [...]