by Margaret Anderson | Jul 6, 2023 | News
I am pleased to report that I have been invited back to Emerson Church to teach another adult education class on August 6, 10:00 AM: “Greed, Envy and Consensus Building.” Visitors will be welcome to attend either in person: Emerson Unitarian Universalist...
by Margaret Anderson | Aug 28, 2022 | News
Both print and Kindle edition’s of Women Can Renew the World IF…and So Can You and Love on the Rocks with a Twist–Delightful Fiction with Lessons on Dealing with Others are on sale from August 29 through September 6. Please click on the book titles...
by Margaret Anderson | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Frame of Mind
I teach people how to discuss sensitive issues and build consensus. They are more successful when they keep calm and avoid, or minimize, direct confrontation or “wrong making.” So some may think I’m unflappable. I actually feel deeply, but when...
by Margaret Anderson | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog
Thanks for your feedback I appreciate all of you who replied to my last post about an audiobook dilemma. Special thanks to Chris Rogers, the best writer I know and a voracious consumer of both fiction and nonfiction. Even after writing an extensive reply, she took the...
by Margaret Anderson | Apr 13, 2022 | Blog, Book Excerpts, Communication, interest talk
Today I read an interesting quote from Alan Alda, “Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.” That quote might seem a little scary at gut level. Why? In these times of such extreme polarization, we might think that listening could mean we...