On 9/11/01, I was working in a TV newsroom and, when the first plane hit, we all assumed that it was just a horrible plane wreck. But when we watched the second plane hit the other tower—on the network's raw news feed, as it was actually happening—I realized that this was deliberate. Some fresh hell was unfolding, and life would never be the same. I was afraid that day, afraid that "Oh no, it's really happening, the Doomsday that we've all been warned about that I didn't take very seriously, it's beginning." Fearful thoughts tumbled through my mind, like dominoes falling on a path lined up toward devastation and destruction. I wondered how long it would take to reach the Midwest, where I was, and when the food rationing would begin. I ...

I have just watched the inauguration of President Obama and can only begin to imagine what it must feel like to be a an African American. For that moment in time I suspended all preconceived ideas, judgements, previous 'wrong doings' of previous presidents and took in that moment in history. I looked at the faces of those people in the crowd who lived with fear, inequality injustice,segregration and were part of the civil rights movement and I itried to maginewhat today might feel like for them and then the famous words (or should I say prophecy) of Martin Luther King ' I have a dream...' ran through my mind and heart. So suspended in that moment I am filled with hope and the belief that all things are possible and the more pe...

Ask yourself what the worst investment you’ve ever made is and you will probably be instantly drawn to a financial situation which turned sour. It could have been a loan to a ‘friend’ that was never returned, or a dabble on the stock market that went wrong. It may even be a pension plan that went under. Either way, it’s probably financially motivated. In my late teens/early twenties I had a habit of making bad investments. These investments were usually in the form of loans to ‘friends’, which never seemed to find their way back to me. Many did get repaid – but they were not the one’s I was focussed on at the time. This led to me feeling an assortment of negative emotions as I recounted how wronged I had been. Being endowed with a tru...