by Margaret Anderson | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
Several years ago, my friend, Rev. Paul Beedle, gave a sermon about how, if members of Congress spent more time in Washington interacting with one another, like they did before air travel became so practical, they would be better able to work out their differences and...
by Margaret Anderson | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
A study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem indicates that people’s faces look like their names.[1] Not only do names affect how people see us, but they influence our own self-images, even causing us to adopt habits, clothes and hairstyles that fit the images the...
by Margaret Anderson | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
It’s often said that the best communicators listen more than they talk. Likewise, when they do talk, they often ask more than they opine. Open questions, that is, questions that can’t be answered yes or no, are among the skills I personally use most, particularly...
by Margaret Anderson | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Friends, I’ll be getting my second cataract fixed soon. Between catching up on laundry and shopping to tide me over when I can’t lift or bend, the down time for the surgery itself, and the blurry aftermath, my computer time will be pretty scant for awhile. Still, I...
by Margaret Anderson | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
In this Bridges Across Politics series, we’ve seen how to lay a foundation for civilized political discussion with small Tortoise Steps and by developing a Grounding Trigger. We discussed the Listen, Pause, Paraphrase skill. Now we move on to introducing our ideas to...
by Margaret Anderson | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog
I had cataract surgery this week, and am not yet up to spending a lot of time looking at a screen. I should be posting as usual within a few days. Meanwhile, here’s an interesting quote from a mystery novel I’m rereading, Death at Whitechapel by Robin...
