Can I Get a Witness?
How journaling has given me the clarity I need when shit comes up. by Matthew Sloane I remember once being really pissed off at someone who left their car blocking the exit from my carport one day. The anger was welling up inside me and quickly turned to rage. I then became afraid of myself, of what I might do. Afraid that I could not control this fire inside me and I might hurt someone,…over a parking space. I never confronted...
Run / Breathe / Bless
Last week was a blur: a good blur. It felt like a marathon, but in reality – an audition, a costume fitting, a meeting for a “big” TV job were among the highlights. Every item (especially the job meeting) required massive preparation:…
A vendetta against email
Over at Harvard Business Review, Alexandra Samuel declares a vendetta against email. Specifically, she makes a few very salient points: “The better I get at filtering and managing my email, the more convinced I am that email overload may be an intractable problem.” Why is that? “If you’re getting 10 emails a day, that seems […]
Action Creates Action
This year I’m in the writers mentoring program at CBS, a networking program for people of color trying to break into the TV writing business. Prior to being in the program, my manager suggested I apply – and at the time I had resistance to …
More Momentum, Less Effort
by Joseph DiCenso Scything wheat, hammering a nail, splitting wood, sledding downhill, surfing a wave, performing a summersault, playing the piano–all of these have something in common: working with momentum. Momentum: mass in motion aiming to remain in motion. In the broader sense, we might say it’s whatever already has life or energy. When we tap that energy we expend less of our own. In exchange, we give up some...
Men Moving beyond the Old Models
by Owen Marcus Growing up, men are usually trained by women on how to be emotional – women filled in for the male role models who weren’t around. Now that we are grown, it’s time we learn how to be emotional in a masculine way. I recently wrote a post for the elephant journal called, Men—Stop Going to Women for All of your Emotional Support. In Stand by Your Man for Role/Reboot I write about how women can not only help the men they...
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