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We CAN handle life's Crises!

First of all, what is a crisis? According to Wiger & Harowski (2003) there are three types of crises: developmental, situational, and existential.  Developmental crises are normal developmental events in which transition leads to a crisis response; situational crises occur… Continue Reading →

A FREE path to health

The definition of leadership I use, everyday, is: The contextually appropriate, social distribution of power.  What this definition means is that it is a person filling a leadership role should seek to recognize ever-changing landscape of which he or she… Continue Reading →

Guitar therapy works for me!

I woke up this morning with what felt like an angry beehive buzzing in my mind.  Hopes, plans, and dreams collided in my head making it impossible for me to hold a single thought long enough to get it on… Continue Reading →

Teaching is the great privilege of my life

Last night, I have a reading in support of my book,  Journey to Aztlan, at a bookstore in Santa Fe called Op Cit.  While I can’t say it was standing room only, I can say that the area set up… Continue Reading →

Leaders are both born and made

A few days ago, I published a new eBook called, A Model for Contextual Leadership: A Practitioner’s Course.  My new book: Presents a behavioral model for an empowerment leadership approach that I call, Contextual Leadership. Provides a program for implementing… Continue Reading →

How a Commodore 64 saved a Chicano Kid

It was late on a Saturday night; maybe two or three in the morning when I awoke to the sound of toes tipping across my carpet. I was twelve and scared to death. Still, I listened to the shuffling going… Continue Reading →

Audio Excerpt — Journey to Aztlan: The Maroma Story

Please enjoy Chapter 3, October 1977 from Journey to Aztlan.  This chapter has become known as “The Maroma/Somersault” story because when I was in first grade, I got “sick” because I didn’t know how to do a somersault, but came… Continue Reading →

Chicanos are, in fact, human

It can seem strange that I write about addiction and depression; as well as, writing and music and computers.  The thing is that, to me, they’re all part of the same thing: My identity.  This identity of mine is how… Continue Reading →

The writing life — it's like an F you for Christmas

I advocate and believe in the power of reflective writing to heal.  My own writing life has richly blessed me; I’ve been able to go places and do things that I never would have even thought possible without the opportunities… Continue Reading →

I wrote it for you

I hate it when people I disagree with turn out to be right.  But, at least I can admit it.  When I was getting ready to release Journey to Aztlan, I had an argument with a marketing firm I was… Continue Reading →

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