Finding Balance.
Building Serenity.
Living with Purpose.
I Seek Serenity is a place to pause, reflect, explore, and consider what really matters in your life. It offers stories, ideas, questions, and practical perspectives—not a prescription for what you must believe.
Explore what interests you
You do not have to begin in any particular place. Follow your curiosity.
The Four-Legged Stool
A framework for thinking about the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of life.
Explore the Four-Legged Stool →Parables
Ancient and traditional stories that invite us to see familiar questions from another perspective.
Read or watch a parable →12 Steps for Growing Strong
Helping children grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually into the people they choose to be.
Explore the 12 Steps →Watch & Listen
Parable videos, Mikey animation, podcasts, interviews, and future Four-Legged Stool discussions.
Watch & listen →Brain Teasers
Logic and math challenges designed to exercise persistence, assumptions, and thinking outside the box.
Try a brain teaser →Community
Fairfield County initiatives and useful ideas from people strengthening their own communities.
Explore community initiatives →Books give ideas room to breathe.
Explore published books, completed work, and projects still growing.
What serenity means to me
Serenity is the stillness at the center of the hurricane.
Life is constantly moving around us—events, emotions, relationships, opinions, laws, expectations, habits. Serenity, to me, is a spiritual space within us that can see beyond the immediate wind field.
At its foundation, serenity is a perspective of love: a place from which I can acknowledge thoughts and emotions without hating them, seek truth without rushing to judgment, and discern what calls for action, acceptance, or release.
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I Seek Serenity
When I retired, staying active mattered to me, and giving something back was a priority. Graduate study in social work became part of that journey, followed by a growing interest in how people decide what matters in their own lives.
I Seek Serenity does not exist to tell people what they should value. It exists to encourage awareness, thoughtful choices, personal responsibility, healthy growth, meaningful contribution—and conversation.
Meet MichaelA different way to join the conversation
Mikey is my illustrated counterpart. He is based on photographs of me and will appear in selected podcasts, stories, Brain Teasers, and other material around the site.
Think of him as another way for me to join the conversation—sometimes thoughtful, sometimes curious, and occasionally a little more playful.
Meet Mikey in Watch & Listen
Something new to explore
A few places to begin, drawn from the material already on the site.
I want to hear your perspective
What questions matter to you? What would you like explored from more than one perspective? Where do you see something differently than I do?
Help me begin the speaking journey.
I have spoken at business events in the past, but I am just beginning the public-speaking part of I Seek Serenity.
Someone will eventually be the first person to invite me to speak about I Seek Serenity. Who would like to be the first?
Something new to explore.
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