Today Ed and I put our 11-year-old grandson Louis on a flight alone (as an unaccompanied minor) from London to Newark, with a plane change in Reykjavik. This photo is a selfie we took at the airport. Louis turned around to face us just before going around the corner of…
My prior blog post suggested that facing ourselves honestly and showing up vulnerably with others are necessary for any of the nine Enneagram types to move toward health. “Yeah, but…” most of us immediately think. It used to be physically painful for me – as an “8” on the Enneagram…
A few days ago, I shared some of the unhealthy aspects of my Enneagram type, the “8.” If you want to know what your Enneagram type is, you can take a very brief test here. We’ve all experienced unhealthy levels of our type, but none of us needs to stay…
I’m an “8” on the Enneagram The powerful, dominating type. The type everyone loves to hate. At an Enneagram retreat a few years ago, we were put into groups according to our type. Each group had the opportunity to sit in the middle of a circle and communicate to the…
How do you define a ‘gentleman’? We recently returned from our one-month cruise up the coast of Brazil and into the Amazon. I wrote and published a daily travel blog, which often described the triumphs and foibles we observed in our fellow passengers and ourselves. I failed to write about…
Six years ago last Thursday at 10:05 a.m. MST, the brilliant cardio-thoracic surgeon Dr. Luis Rosado-Lopez cut open my beloved’s chest and constructed three alternative pathways for blood to flow to his heart. Dr. Rosado saved Ed’s life, and today my blog is about gratitude for that gift. I’m one…