Is it ever too late in life to redefine yourself or take on a new challenge? Short answer. No. Marshall Mend is living proof that there is no age limit to new triumphs. He was headed for victory from the time he dropped out of high school because of a philosophical difference, he says, with the principal. The principal thought...

Imagine day after day after day riding the train into San Francisco to get to a job you don’t really like, and daily as the train chugs up the Peninsula and into San Francisco you pray for a change in your life. Every morning you sit in the same seat on that train, look out the window, think and do...

The night of the second debate between Clinton and Trump is a good time to listen to Hank Berman, psychotherapist with a practice in San Francisco, speak about the kind of trouble we are in as a nation – disillusion, ongoing perceptible unraveling of the ties that bind, non adherence to structures and rules, and a waning sense that we...

Kay D’Arcy is too busy redefining her life, choosing new careers and much too occupied to let age get in the way of her successes. After her 28 year marriage dissolved because her husband “chose a new pahth” (yes her English accent adds the right flavor to the very statement), this mother of six was more than ready to start...

It is no wonder that the San Francisco artist Alicia Escott, one of the most imaginative thinkers and communicators of our time, repaired a love gone into a mournful mode, and did it without a spoken word. Master of communication and keeping up with abrupt changes that she is, Alicia’s art focuses on evolutionary shifts, climate change and lost species...

There is no underestimating the damage done to the spirit by chronic raging physical pain that is, for good reason, so often tied to depression if not the desire to end life. Living with the torment of relentless excruciating pain is an indescribable horror made worse by living it in isolation while being ignored, mocked, consigned to the dustbin of...

Because Peter Finch loves telling significant stories and does it with insight and a contagious humor, he has enjoyed a long and successful radio career. He was, for 18 years with KFOG, 3 with KGO, and 4 months after being inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, he was out of work. Changing times. Undaunted by challenges as he is, Peter...

Barbara Rose Brooker, author, painter, and columnist whose works you may well know and may have in your home, is defined by her ability to love, see truth, forgive, live without guile, speak with candor and move ahead no matter the adversity. After having lived a life of satisfying other people’s expectations that led her temporarily off...

Poetry is an important part of Brad Byrum’s life. He remembers his grandmother reading poetry to him, but the real connection came about twenty years ago as part of his adult spiritual journey when he realized that language is inadequate to capture the depth of what we experience in our lives. His realization that poetry moves from expression to silence...

Joshua Abramson, the Johnny Appleseed of “I love you” is making admirable strides in changing the world’s greeting from “hello” to “I love you”. He has been successfully taking this new greeting to the streets, to his workshops with the “I love you” challenge, and into business where “I love you” works wonders. Joshua just returned from...