Mentoring and apprenticeships, an intergenerational alliance that creates trust. […]
Mentoring and Apprenticeships Build Trust

Mentoring and apprenticeships, an intergenerational alliance that creates trust. […]
Boston & Maine Connection: Celebrating Valentine’s Day All Month Long Valentine’s Day has become a day of exchanging positive greetings at every level including family and friends and grade school, children exchanging cards if they are physically in classrooms these days. The origin of Valentine’s Day was a Roman festival celebrating spring which has […]
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My three words for 2021. Guiding words rather than New Year Resolutions. My three words for 2021: Directness – Flexibility – Action Guiding words rather than New Year Resolutions. After a year filled with all kinds of surprises, I’ve learned to pace myself, accept that I can’t predict today, let alone anything in the future, […]
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We can learn from children as easily as they learn by observing us. […]
When the AMTRAK Downeaster pulls out of a station it becomes a long skinny Maine town. Civility of Rail travel and human connection. […]
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While Ed Webster was celebrating the 30th anniversary of his Everest climb, Dan Szczesny was on his way to celebrating the 3rd printing of his book. And so, when I saw Ed heading over to Dan’s table after the talk, I knew we were about to experience one extraordinary moment in Southern Midcoast Maine. […]
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The oldest and fastest team sport in the world visited Boston yesterday. Hurling, the ancient and Legendary national game of Ireland played out at Fenway Park before a crowd of some 28,000 people including this first timer. Played with an ash stick called a hurley and a leather ball called a sliothar (which looked like […]
Focus, Filtered & Fluid. My Three Words for 2017 Way back in 2006, when I was struggling to hold it all together in a corporate world heading off the rails, a guy by the name of Chris Brogan quit making New Year’s resolutions. Instead, he chose three words he would use as a guiding principle […]
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My Three Words for 2016. Chris Brogan started the practice of launching each new year with just three words to live and work by. He found it more effective than making and soon thereafter breaking a slew of New Year Resolutions. I’ve participated in this annual ritual for a number of years now. Three […]
The best thing I did the other night was to decide to join Malia Lazu at Emerson’s Paramont theater for an intimate book reading and signing by Walter Mosley. Future Boston Alliance co-organized the event as well as Mosley’s eleven day “Obsessive Residency” with ArtsEmerson. I knew Malia as co-founder of Future Boston Alliance but […]