The robin on the power-line outside my window touts a worm in its beak. It doesn’t eat the worm right away, but…
Mixed Motives
Posts Categorized: Living Virtue
From Fog to Light
A virtuoso emailed the other day: “I am reading parts of C.S. Lewis again, and came across this: ‘Virtue, even attempted virtue,…
The Here and Now of Each Day
Pope Francis’s address to Congress is about virtue – a call to live up to our potential as people created in God’s…
Doorway to Excellence
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly (until you get better at it!)? That’s my motto…
Here — Taste This!
Heaps of cucumbers, eggplant, and other colorful veggies greeted my friend Roberta and me today as we strolled the farmers’ market in…
Facing Forward
At a conference this spring, I brought back two takeaways that both start with the letter “F.” F.E.A.R. stands for False Evidence…
Strength Training — One Virtue at a Time
We all need good advice, but too much at once can be more obstacle than help. A woman who watched too many…
Too Connected?
Staying connected is a good thing. But I let myself get connected to the wrong things this week and woke up this morning…
Festina Lente
“Make haste slowly” is the ancient Roman way of saying, “You’ll get more done if you stop running around like a crazy…
Golf Balls, Beads, and Sand
My brother-in-law Andy says his biggest help to building virtue is “creating some order in my life — making what is really…
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