A piece of cake

The Do-It-Yourself home repair guy on the television was connecting two PVC couplings. He cut here, brushed some adhesive there, and voila, it was done in no time. He made it look so simple. To steal a line from Geico, the U.S.-based auto insurance company, it looked “so easy a caveman can do it.” For … More A piece of cake

A puzzling problem

I’m amazed by the way my wife’s brain works. She’ll set out a challenging jigsaw puzzle and she sees things that I could never see in a million years. She sees color and shape patterns. She’ll see a small glint of gray and knows without hesitation that it goes with a dark blue piece off … More A puzzling problem

Ginger Knows Best

A client (we’ll call her Ginger*) asked me recently about hands-on activities and the power of handwork, being productive, creating things and optimizing her mental health.  She said she’d listened to a podcast about “effort driven rewards” and she was curious about what I thought.  First – I love that Ginger’s doing the good work … More Ginger Knows Best