News and media have covered the Coronavirus in great detail, but they have overlooked a major story…how to manage our fear.
Author Archives: Neil
A Remarkable Story About the Power of Faith
This is a story about the human spirit, and the power of faith. It is the remarkable story of a woman named Sandy Brown, who in the course of three days last month, lost her husband and then her twenty-year-old son to Covid-19. The details of how things transpired do not need to be re-writtenContinue reading “A Remarkable Story About the Power of Faith”
The Top Story News and Media Overlooked
News outlets cover Covid-19 in great detail but have missed our biggest story
One Thing Everyone Needs for Optimal Health
The other day I wrote about the Covid-19 opportunity. How despite the sadness, fear and anxiety we all share, we can also choose to acknowledge the opportunity we have to savor the gift of time. Time to spend with our families or just to read a few good books. But I was wrong. Not allContinue reading “One Thing Everyone Needs for Optimal Health”
The Covid-19 Opportunity: Respond With Love
The Coronavirus has abruptly changed life as we knew it. Daily routines that once gave us comfort are now memories of the past. Our morning exchange with the coffee barista, hanging out with co-workers in the office, an evening yoga class or visit to the gym, all of it now on hold for an indeterminateContinue reading “The Covid-19 Opportunity: Respond With Love”
The Covid-19 Opportunity
The Coronavirus has abruptly changed life as we knew it. Daily routines that once gave us comfort are now memories of the past. Our morning exchange with the coffee barista, hanging out with co-workers in the office, an evening yoga class or visit to the gym, all of it now on hold for an indeterminateContinue reading “The Covid-19 Opportunity”
Try Being Human
I was in the midst of writing a book on social media when the Coronavirus took over our collective consciousness. Unable to focus on the book, or much of anything for an extended period of time, I decided to create this blogsite which allows for short bursts of attention before being pulled back into theContinue reading “Try Being Human”
Why We Bark
Being confined all day lends itself to spending even more time online than we normally do, and since I’m writing a book on social media, I’ve been justifying my excessive web surfing as research. This morning, I came across a video of a man barking at a dog. Yes, you read that correctly. And theContinue reading “Why We Bark”
What Fear Exposes
My new homepage is the Johns Hopkins coronavirus website, which you can find here: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html As you see in the image above, the red dots indicating coronavirus spread are now covering almost the entire planet. We are definitely not flattening the curve. I think we all need to settle in, settle down and stop runningContinue reading “What Fear Exposes”
Tiesto’s Secret for Relieving Stress
Good morning. We woke up to a slew of more bad news. The economy is in recession and probably headed for depression. The stock market has erased years and years of savings. Massive layoffs at companies in almost every industry are creating record high unemployment rates, and I’m already out of mayonnaise for my tuna.Continue reading “Tiesto’s Secret for Relieving Stress”