Burt Gershater

If you really want to have some fun, keep looking for love stories in your life. If you can’t find them right away, create them. It’s an invaluable life skill. First off, let me begin by clearly stating that I don’t believe anything is truly random. Love story # 1. The only reason my dear […]

Life: A Walk in the Park? We all know the answer to that one. Whether it’s our work, our partner, our family, our physical health, mental health…life. No matter what, sometimes it’s a walk in the park and other times it’s a walk in the park during a tornado. But we do live in a […]

One of the things I do when I am not with clients or writing is providing leadership and team building programs for all kinds of folks. Recently I was working with a group of counselors at Mountain Adventure Tours, a camp near Sun Valley, Idaho. The camp was created 27 years ago by our son, […]

I‘ve never met you, but I know a thing or two after nearly seven decades of bouncing around here on earth. Now, for sure, I don’t know even a billionth of what there is to know. No one does, but I’m darn sure of this one: You, yes you, are making our world a better […]

I am sitting in Longmont, Colorado, looking out at the entrancing cumulus clouds and five bright red tulips in the garden. It is the morning before Passover, one of the most celebrated holidays of our Jewish tradition. Wendy and I are staying at the home of our daughter Jennie and son-in-law, Louie, on the edge of […]

Opportunities to choose to do life righter, brighter and better are available to us every day, all day long. Even when we don’t feel like it. Pretty cool, eh? I am assuming you know the last two words of this wise old lesson, “Fake it till you make it.” I learned it a long time […]

I apologize from the very beginning if you began reading today’s message because you thought it was going to provide some enlightenment about the art of sexual love-making. But hopefully today’s message will be one of the most life-impacting you’ve ever read on this eternally compelling topic. I never was comfortable with these common words for […]

Are we ever too young or ever too old to ponder, in our own way, why we’re here? Life seems long sometimes. Sometimes, not so long. Regardless, it’s all we have, so let’s do our best to do it the best we can. Could I have chosen three weightier topics for today’s message? Probably not. […]

You and I were given priceless gifts when we arrived into this world. One is the gift of LIFE, the other is the gift of CHOICE. We never will be able to count all our blessings. But we should try. I have been known, historically, to hyperbolize in my written and oral communications, and realize […]

There is plenty in our personal lives and in our world to bring us down and make us feel low. There is as much or more internally and externally to elevate our spirits to help us go higher. This is our never-ending work. Such a significant, complicated, crucial and polarizing question. Let me tell you […]