After I got fired from my job as editor-in-chief of PARADE Magazine, I became aware of how much my job had defined and dominated my life and identity. I had become disconnected from the people who mattered most to me, including my wife and three young kids, so instead of rushing out to find a new job, I committed myself to a year of tending to my unfinished emotional and spiritual business. I found an abandoned aunt, paid back an old debt, thanked the teacher who had changed my life, made a l...
Published on July 10, 2010 07:00