Keep your promises
"That promise I did not keep." "Well, then, it was jolly rotten of you," said Digory. "Rotten?" said Uncle Andrew with a puzzled look "Oh…
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Grandpa’s study
Sometimes, on overnights at Grandma and Grandpa's house, I'd sleep down in the basement. They had a cool, dark, extremely cozy bedroom all the way…
Manners
While you were growing up, did it seem like your parents were constantly reminding you of your manners? "Mind your Ps and Qs." "Don't chew…
MYOB
I had a nursing professor who loved acronyms. "FWM" means "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made"--she used this to stop her lectures in order to glory in…
Leaders are writers
It's amazing how often you hear leaders advise leaders to write. To carve out time, to make it a habit--to keep trying to improve. Why?…
Leadership is lonely
If you're a leader, you're in a different category--one that by definition automatically has fewer people in it. Sometimes this comes at a surprise. When…
Rules
"I thought you were going to teach us rules, and steps, and plans." "Annabelle, rules and steps and tips and plans will make you old…
Advice and orders
In C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, there's a Dwarf named Trumpkin who is very important to the story. He's presented as a cooperative and wise leader--happy…
My tail!
One of my favorite scenes in C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, is when the ever-chivalrous mouse, Reepicheep, mortally wounded in battle, is brought (lying on a…
Evergreen
My office faces the woods. There's a tall-as-me pine tree in the foreground--in the middle of the bushes before the trees. In the winter he…