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The 3-Legged Dog, A Trial Lawyer Who Has Epiphanies and Lifting from the Legs

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Bentley is 10 years old, has only 3 legs and, unlike the other canines in the shelter, wasn't doing anything to sell himself.  After 20 years away from animal rescue, I knew I had to spring into action. Bentley probably sensed the importance of the meet-and-greet and made the smart pawing/licking moves. Off he was to the sofa in his forever home on December 4, 2025. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush of getting sprung from the shelter. Whatever. He had no initial trouble with the 7 steps from my apartment to the outside. Then he did.  It was obvious that I would have to relocate to true ground floor housing. But there were 2 things. 1) I was not ready to pull up these just-planted rootlings and 2) I would have to pony up 2 months rent to exit the lease prematurely. That would be on the top of the purchase of a car, pricey dental work and just last week paying back the IRS for the $1,400 + interest that was sent to me in 2025 in error.  I did tarot card spreads on this keep-...
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Private Parts: Is Uncle Jeffrey Shifting Relationship with Kathy Ruemmler to Very Different Dimension?

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"What was he thinking?" That's the frequent question female clients ask me during a tarot session. The male in their romantic life has communicated something off-base - or at least what they can't understand. Gently I reframe the conversation to my concern what they think. Not what the other party might have on their minds, although we will get to that. Well, for a top professional like lawyer Kathy Ruemmler there would be concern when she received a peculiar email from Uncle Jeffrey. As the New York Post reports, Jeffrey Epstein transmitted this to Ruemmler:  “they say that men usually give a name to their penis, as it would be inappropriate to make love to a total stranger.” The Post goes on to note that Ruemmler replied in a sort of "let's ignore this" fashion: "Hard to believe that there is still an open question whether man are yth [sic] inferior gender." This is a sophisticated worldly-wise woman. At that point should she have gotten it t...
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Setback, Even Disgrace: Don't Hide and Here's Why That's the Worse Thing to Do

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  It "feels" counterintuitive. That is not "hiding.  You experience the unexpected in your work life. It's negative. Maybe it's even career-threatening. The appropriate thing to do seems to be vanishing for a while. The classic example is the terminated C-Suiter who takes refuge in their Hampton getaway, away from the media, gossipy former colleagues and the hecklers back in Manhattan. Well, the odds for a solid professional next are strong for former chair of Paul, Weiss Brad Karp. That's partly because he's not hiding.  This weekend Karp was at the Super Bowl.  Click on his Paul, Weiss website profile and all his contact information is still there: V-card, phone number, email and more.  Those I communicate with who have been in touch with him tell me he responds promptly. No radio silence. Oh, I understand the compulsion to fold into yourself, like an abused dog. "I want to just die." That's what tarot-reading clients tell me after a rev...
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BoomerVille: Help Should Be on the Way for Assisted Suicide

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  Suicide remains a controversial subject in America. As it should be. This is life and the possibility of death. Some moderators on social media might delete postings about it and/or transmit information about sources for help. In tarot readings, of course, I manage the issue with great care. I was honored to direct a man with a severe drinking problem and a plan for ending his life to a 12-step program.  Meanwhile, I resonate with Boomers - we were the generation to overthrow our mothers and liberate sexuality - talking about suicide for themselves. That's right down to the methodology. One told me about possibly drowning. I advised against that. When five years of age I kept going under before being rescued. The experience was horrific. The oldest of the Boomers is 80 years old.  For some, the issue has come to this: Not if but when. When there is "enough" cognitive and physical decline there's the hope that we're still in adequate control to pass over to the w...
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The Post-Epstein Files World: What Lessons Will Be Learned (at least for a while)

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  Eventually the fallout from the Epstein Files will end. Soon enough we'll be in the Post-Epstein File era. Already clients for tarot readings are asking me what they should not be doing or doing now that we understand those complex patterns of manipulation in networking. Well, there are lessons to be learned. Many of them are obvious. Some others will be made clear in time. Here are the top ones: Vet more thoroughly those presenting themselves to loop in.   Do that and there will be fewer Bernie Madoffs and Jeffrey Epsteins. Hire a private investigator? Good idea and worthwhile investment. Interpret favor-bombing as a red flag.  No, you're not that special. Way back in the early 1990s, public relations guru Bob Dilenschneider coined the term "Favor Bank" as the essence of networking. You make deposits in the Favor Bank and don't overdo the withdrawals. Well, if any applicant to the group is way too generous with the favors for you, beware. Odd that prominent law...
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"Clear Thinking, Don't Know" - The Zen of Innovative Problem-Solving

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In the New Haven, Connecticut Kwan Um School of Zen Center  both monks and lay-person members focus on the mantra: Clear Thinking, Don't Know.  If you're spiritually in-tune that should open up pathways to fresh perspectives.  After participating in that meditation ritual for 18 months I had the Ah-Ha moment that I should and could (that is, had the strength) to exit the New York Metro area. I would relocate my communications business to where there was less age bias. Yes, I had "aged out" of the media capital of the world. That was 2014.  In 2021, doing the same kind of exercise at the Cochise Kwan Um School in Bisbee, Arizona, I got the "message" that the time was overdue to shift from communications. That would be to my sideline and pro-bono activities in providing tarot readings. Already, since 2008, I had been providing intuitive career coaching. Given the power of emptying our thought processes of fixed ideas, it's no surprise that in this confusin...
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It's Not Your Fault, But ...

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  It happens all the time, sometimes in minutes, more often gradually. That's a negative career event which isn't your fault. For example, the boss gets fired, shade is thrown on the whole group and eventually you're forced out. The law firm you lateraled to goes out of business. Your sector is among those targeted by AI. In tarot-readings you keep repeating that it's not your fault. And, based on my knowledge of business, you are probably right. But, fixating on where to assign blame for career setbacks or even implosions will delay turning it around. Or it could even mean you'll never work again. That is similar to the myth of fair. Expecting a level playing field not only will fill you with resentment. But the disappointment about others having advantages you don't can deter you from investing yourself fully and creatively in how you earn a good living. Worse, the festering outrage can land you in prison, as happened with late mayor of Providence, Rhode Islan...
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