Chopping Brush
A post on the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation made me cry this morning. It was by a young woman of color working as a Staff Assistant in the U.S. Congress […]
Tag Archives: thinking
Guest Rant: The Positive Case for Hillary Clinton
I am privileged to have some really smart friends who often write things I wish I had said myself, or from a perspective outside of mine. Today I exercise my […]
10 Things I Learned in 2014
I recently saw a picture of Cinderella’s slipper with the caption “If Cinderella went back to pick up her shoe she wouldn’t have become a princess.” Whatever your feelings about […]
Cheap shots
While this title might suggest a lengthy post about the evils of drinking well liquor, it is instead an acknowledgment how easily riffs on the venerable Meyers-Briggs Type Indicators amuse […]
Zen & The Art of Personal Maintenance
I am very bad at relaxing. That sentence is a good indicator of my poor showing at R&R. I always assume there must be some way to excel at activities and I […]
I Never Played an Ingenue
When I stepped away from actively doing any theater I also stopped attending the kinds of plays I had liked to perform in and direct. I had a hard time […]
Steel Cables
Been thinking a lot about obligations lately. What you owe to colleagues, family, friends, society – why and how the calculations are made. Fortunately, when I get caught in a […]
Pandora’s Jar
Every once in a while when I am coaching a client I get to witness a moment when they realize possibility. An almost audible “click” as thoughts crystallize and the […]
Red Card
I’m not a terribly sports oriented person. I don’t like watching professional sports other than tennis, and always preferred pick up games to organized teams. I’m equal parts overly competitive […]
Time Out
Time off means different things to different people. For me, stretches of “free time”, also known as “Holidays”, usually mean “Project Management”. Winter break projects usually involve paint, furniture rearranging […]
My Dad
My Dad died December 2, 1992. He was 62. He had cancer and treatments and it all seemed to happen very fast. The space of a year from diagnosis to […]
Sugar & Spice
I attended a lecture about negotiating today. Specifically about how women do or don’t negotiate and why. None of this was news to me but I always like to know […]
Pick a little
I know the Pick-A Little song from music man is really about women gossiping in a small town but it is the most precise description of what was going on […]
Flattered
I was at a meeting last night and as it was finishing a colleague pulled me into a conversation.
Finicky
I had an interesting conversation with my husband last night and discovered I am as finicky as a cat with a bowl of discount food. I was explaining how I […]
