Work continues on my upcoming studio dates & guests for my August tapings.  I used to specify 'my cable TV' but now that has become redundant.   It is like Nora Ephron's comment, "It's all copy!" 

Work also continues on my website.  A few of my favorite quotes will be on it, including these: 
Anais Nin: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.   
Leads, don't you think, right into... this quote from my all-time #1 hero, MLK, Jr: Courage breeds creativity.

Einstein had a couple of his own (haha) which appeal to me: Imagination is more important than knowledge.   The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. 

& lastly, the one which must propel us all to achieve anything in our lives:  Never never never give up.  Winston Churchill. 

I always close my current TV show with the tagline, "What do you think?"   This came about from a conversation I had with my son when he was in his mid-teens.

I am sure it is well-documented evidence (somewhere) that a girl will tell you waaay more than you ever really wanted to know yet a boy may tell you close to nothing, all from the same question.  So, in asking my son the question of how I was doing as a parent (to avoid the "fine, mom" response), I asked him if he could name 2 or 3 things he liked about my style or about which he felt I was at least doing okay.   His answer was the greatest & immediate.  "Oh mom," he said, "that's easy!  First of all you always ask us 'What do you think' and then, you listen."   I love that!   (Thanks, dad!)

In its own way, the question relates to the two words that best describe the most effective tool used by physicians in diagnosing a patient: To Listen.   Here is the quote-of-quotes (by whom?) which states:  If all else fails, listen to the patient.  

It always cracks me up but it is also an eye-opener.  There was an interesting yet frustrating article by Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker which covered this very aspect of the doctor-patient interview.   Look it up, read it.   Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink, also touched on how correctly using this very tool can make a difference in doctors being sued - or not!  

Hmmm...   To Listen.  It sounds so simple.