Walt’s Wood Shop
The tools we need for our spiritual journey can sometimes stop working. I was reminded of this in a recent conversation with one of my closest spiritual companions. We’re about the same age, and we…
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Writing With Bolt Cutters
My job is in real estate. My company, family owned for over 75-years, invests in under valued commercial real estate. Our work is to bring out that value. Everything I wrote above can sound triumphalist….
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Winds of Change
One of my first projects at Goble Properties was to build an industrial complex on a piece of land in San Jose. It was a weird shaped parcel, but a good location. The project was…
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Conflict and Peace
This story is about conflict that ended with peace and friendship. It’s one of those (seemingly) few happy ending stories, so it stands out amidst all the doom & gloom we often hear. It begins,…
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But I do own the damn road
Years ago, when car phones were just becoming a thing, our real estate business posted signs on an office building we managed. The building lacked parking, and the signs gave the usual warnings. They also…
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Faith and work
My flight to Philadelphia was scheduled to leave at 11:35 AM. But there was no plane at the gate at 11:30 AM, which was obviously a bad sign. About that time the ticket agent explained…
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The Generous Boss
This morning I had the honor of speaking to the Campolo Scholars at Eastern University. The topic was leadership and the talk was centered around why I wrote the book Salvaged. At one point we…
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Choosing Our Problems
Our company recently had everyone take an online class in workplace harassment prevention. Information in the course made me wonder . . . what problems do we choose to address and which ones do we…
