Chances are you need a reality check if things aren’t right at work. Do you desire something more, a better career? Is there a disconnect with your company’s product or clients? Do you feel phony representing their interests or trying to sell something you don’t really believe in? Has your former healthy fear of making mistakes [...]
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT? WHAT’S THE HURRY? ARE ALL HANDS ON DECK?
Warning: This post is about politics. Encouraged by vast throngs more than one of our readers, we’re going to stand on the bridge over the teeming abyss of political discourse, and have a measured conversation. We’re going to discuss, as politely and graciously as the subject permits and deserves. As always, we’re honored by and [...]
LOYALTY
The definition of loyalty is getting a workout these days. We’ve been talking about it frequently as the hearings on the auto industry bailout take place. The disconnect is so troubling. The executive level appears to finally have had a long overdue reality check, yet it’s the rank and file who will be drastically effected [...]
ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE FULFILLED CAMPAIGN PROMISE
Part of a planned series examining ideas, practices, and mores that appear to be on their way to extinction. Campaign promises made aren’t always promises kept. In the beginning days of our nation, strict Constitutionalist Thomas Jefferson called for reduced executive powers and an austere reduction in spending to reduce the leftover national debt from [...]
VOTE
I can barely write this post for emotion. Today, I will go and vote. My husband and I will go together. Our polling place is a short walk down a tree-lined street from our home. When I lived in Deephaven, it was another peaceful walk to an orderly polling place in a well-kept school. For [...]

Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life.