Author: Tara May

If you're anywhere over the age of 25, there is a good chance you've been invited to join an adult coed softball team at some point. No doubt, the team you were invited to was started by a group of co-workers, or neighborhood friends, or maybe even some people at the gym you go to. For me, it was a group of friends who organized our weekly games the first time around. It's been a couple of years since that team disbanded, but now the opportunity is coming around again, and with it, the shadow of all sorts of...

A commonly quoted saying, often attributed to the 17th century writer and philosopher Voltaire, goes like this: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." I've become especially intimate with this adage lately, and I've decided that striving for perfection is just another excuse for enabling fear. It's the crutch we cling to that excuses our inactivity and inability to get started on our goals. It is an impossibly high stake to strive for that all too often ensures we never attempt the climb. This is going to be a short post (some of you will be happy to...