10 Things My Parents Taught Me 

10 Things My Parents Taught Me 

Sometimes we just need to go back and embrace those early, important life lessons we learned as kids. Say please and thank you.  Stand when a lady comes to your table (or when the lady at your table leaves).  Taste your food before you put salt and pepper on it.  Have...
The Four Stages of Anyone’s Career

The Four Stages of Anyone’s Career

I recently read The Garner Files: a Memoir by James Garner and Jon Winokur. Garner was perhaps best known as Jim Rockford in the long-running TV show The Rockford Files, but he also worked the big screen in movies like The Great Escape with Steve McQueen. Garner’s...
Lessons Learned on the Camino de Santiago

Lessons Learned on the Camino de Santiago

Over ten years ago, I watched “The Way,” a movie starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. It’s about an American father (Sheen) who travels to Europe to retrieve the body of his estranged son (Estevez), who died while attempting the pilgrimage to Spain’s Santiago de...
The Man Game

The Man Game

With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, I thought I’d share something I once shared with my own boys on Father’s Day. It’s a letter I wrote to them when I was in my 40s. I wanted to communicate some life lessons I had learned, and I wrote this down in case God...
Corsini’s Annual Vacation Dos and Don’ts

Corsini’s Annual Vacation Dos and Don’ts

In today’s hyperconnected world, it’s increasingly common for professionals to blur the lines between work and leisure. Bringing a laptop to work in a coffee shop for a few hours comes to mind. That’s more like a nice change of pace and place. But bringing the office...
Because She Said So

Because She Said So

In memory of Alice May Wold Corsini (1922-2003) and wonderful mothers everywhere. Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, and there are lots of ways and reasons to celebrate. Some of our mothers have passed, so we’ll be remembering them with love and missing them...