The Home Depot Torture Song
Whenever I’m out on a Saturday doing any shopping trip and my daughter is in tow, she commandeers my phone and my Spotify account. She’ll start playing songs I don’t…
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Have you Processed the Grief?
You don’t get out of this life without feeling grief. But it’s going to get you, and me, no matter what. You’re going to experience change in your life, whether…
Words Matter
The words your parents said to you defined how you thought about yourself, your world and your place in it. As a small child, we looked up to these wiser…
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Reinventing Organizations & Challenging Assumptions
I read a passage in a book recommended to me by a leadership consultant, a friend of my husband who does a lot of leadership and sales coaching. The book,…
Who You Were Yesterday
I have been very lucky to have very successful friends. I have friends who have succeeded in various industries, and I have friends who have luxurious lives. I have friends…
Riding Beyond Fear
I made a commitment to do 30 days of ClickPublish, which arrived serendipitously at a time when I could really use a jumpstart and some discipline in my own personal…
Somehow, it goes on
I woke this morning, went on a walk with Max and Bodhi, and out to breakfast with Claire and Mark. It has been a great day. Even though the weather…
Someone Moved
We moved to Phoenix in mid-June. I don’t yet feel at home. The oppressive heat has been wearing on me, but I can see an end to the furnace-inspired onslaught…
On Writing; the Drought of 2017
A new acquaintance asked me why I stopped writing. “Life. Work. Kids. Mostly life,” I answered. “Well you have to have all of that if you’re going to have something…