Challenging ourselves

I’m very grateful for the comments posted to my last Equinox entry. They’re so thought-provoking and full of wisdom. One of them has inspired today’s entry: Freeman wrote, “we must address issues and actions from a place of selflessness and love for all involved. We should not ask ourselves ‘what is best for us?’ (for [...]

Equinox

Tomorrow is the equinox, when day and night are of equal length across the planet. Day and night are always of equal length at the equator, but for the rest of us, because of the Earth’s tilt as it circles the sun, we only have two such days each year. I like to pause at [...]

Promoting Heroism

In the Fall/Winter 2006-07 issue of Greater Good Magazine, authors Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo describe the concept of the “banality of heroism.” Philip Zimbardo is famous for his Stanford Prison Experiments conducted in 1971 in which participating college students were randomly assigned the role of prisoners or guards. Similar to the “blue eyed/brown eyed” [...]

Claude and Medea

I’m delighted to announce that my newest book, Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs, is out. The first in a children’s series for 8-12 year olds, Claude and Medea become clandestine activists in New York City and solve the mystery of a rash of Manhattan dog thefts. In future books, Claude and Medea will rescue [...]