Over the following seven issues, another installment appeared on each front page.

I fashioned the series using Jeannie McLendon's Seven A-s, an outline intended to help individuals, families, and groups work through catastrophic change: Awareness, Acceptance, Authorship, Articulation, Application, Activism, and Altruism. (I added in an eighth A, Adventure, later, to explain what I'd learned and where I think I'm going next.)

The series has received overwhelming response, including an upcoming mention in Laura Rowley's Yahoo! Finance Column. This column receives 42 million unique hits per week.

When I say the series has received overwhelming response, I do not mean 'overwhelmingly positive response,' but simply overwhelming. Bi-polar overwhelming, very positive along with some excruciatingly negative.

Musta worked.

I could ruin your experience of simply reading the columns by explaining them, but I guess I won't (this time)! Instead, I'll just list 'em in order and wait for your contribution to the pile of bi-polar feedback.

Part two, Acceptance: The Panhandler’s Paradox, where I bum for change in Vienna and end up changing myself.
Part three, Authorship: My Own Self-Help Book, where I learn enough to be cynical but choose not to become cynical.
Part four, Articulation: Finding My Voice Again, where I channel my tough-skinned, tight-lipped ancestors.
Part five, Application: Working Anyway, where the cost of idleness outweighs the price of work.
Part six, Activism: Can You Hear Me Now?, where I explain how my business managed to make over four billion dollars more than General Motors.
Part seven, Altruism: Greater Gifts, (Amy likes this one best), where I start chipping my new self from solid stone.
And the final installment, Adventure: Neighborly Naked, where I rediscover the transformative power of tighty whiteys.

I will comment further on the experience in a later post.