In spite of my unabashed adoration of George Clooney, this is not just a thinly veiled excuse to get his handsome face on my blog. Parade magazine recently featured Clooney on its cover, then ran a related Q&A on its website. The article, headlined What Drives George Clooney, included this snippet that’s a perfect fit for Newvine Growing: You’ve talked…
My piano teacher has instructed me that I’m to have a glass of wine before I practice piano. He’s constantly reminding me that it’s OK to make mistakes, that as a beginner I need to make mistakes to learn, and he wants me to give myself permission to be imperfect. Thus the wine, to chill out a bit about whether…
I’m not the biggest sports fan but I do think sports offers some excellent life lessons. For example, I’ve always liked the saying “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Babe Ruth, considered one of the best baseball players of all time, hit 60 home runs in 1927, breaking his own record as the all-time single-season HR…
