Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

February 5, 2025
woman reading newspaper

Is Communication in a Coma?

What Does This New World of Communication Mean to Our Community? Let’s say most of the members of our GPC Community are 45 or older and learned communication principles and practices when freedom of the press was the law of the land and your job or main relationship to the press was […]
January 3, 2025
2025 New Year city skyline

Transformation Questions Build Curiosity Muscles

Better Questions For Someone at Your Advanced Level What a year! Did anyone get the license number of that truck that just ran over us? Do you have more questions than answers these days? Can I count on you to step into the GCP Community to help us sort this out and […]
December 20, 2024
human dog walk on beach sunrise

Productivity for the Gifted Professional

An Entirely Fresh Approach for a Neurodiverse Brain When I first wrote about productivity, I did not know I was gifted. That was five years ago and many transformative, mind-blowing changes drive me back to this topic for a 2025 version and an entirely fresh approach to productivity My 2019 article still […]
December 12, 2024
sculpture The Thinker

Star of Wonder. Star With Royal Beauty Bright.

Guide us to a perfect light. Who have been your guiding stars this year? I wonder—a lot. I can overthink anything. Most of all, I obsess about you, the reader of this weekly post, and the online community members for Gifted Professionals and Communicators Sia and I started three years ago. The […]
November 28, 2024
illustration of network

Bluesky Basics for Never Twitter Boomers

We Came to the Social Media Party Late. But We Have The Beer. Until this month, I had no use for social media. Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Mastodon, Discord, oh my. Whenever someone encouraged me to open an account, I found the same disappointment. Everyone was broadcasting and not listening. I would close […]
November 10, 2024
broken heart

Grieve, Rest, and Once Again Rise

There is no cure for one of the oldest and most profound human emotions: grief. Just as it is certain you will learn to love, laugh, walk, talk, feed yourself, and develop as a human being, so too is the certainty you will die. Before that happens, you’ll suffer loss so crushing […]
October 9, 2024
human laying on ground thinking

Two Secrets of High Achievement: Music and Nature

Why is it so difficult to move from thinking to doing? Would you rather read a book and scroll through articles on your phone instead of shutting out distractions to get down to the hard work of creating something or making something out of nothing but your imagination? Would you rather write […]
October 1, 2024
friends gathered around campfire

Air, Food, Water, Friendships

Life support instructions for being truly seen, understood, and loved by other humans Do we need to discuss this or does everyone have plans in place for when they are suddenly without air, food, water, or friends? Many people this week feel the direct impact of Hurricane Helene while millions elsewhere see […]
August 29, 2024
Stack of newspapers

Welcome to the Age of Reinvention

We’ve been expecting you What I was writing for you this week can wait until next week. Before the digital age when publishers could post a story and remove it or change it within minutes, there were printing presses. It took 8 hours, from start to finish to find the stories, sell […]