The journey.This is me, beginning a journey of a thousand miles with a single step, literally and figuratively.Feb 17, 2021Feb 17, 2021
The advocates, the resistors, and everyone else.It is the advocates and resistors that always stand out. We know them. We hear them. And their words, for better or worse, are like…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
Go away anger, you are not welcome here.Life is finite. I don’t have time for anger, but sometimes I will sit in its viscosity just long enough to flirt with its power. Then, I…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
The gift of 2020.2020 has been enlightening, thought-provoking, validating, and downright exceptional in all the best and worst ways.Jan 2, 2021Jan 2, 2021
The Gingerbread ChroniclesEvery year, for each of the last four years, my daughters and I have held the holiday tradition of hosting a mother-daughter cookie…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Unpaid work and its impact on organizational gender balance.The unequal distribution of unpaid work is still one of the most pressing problems affecting women in our time and, in particular, their…Dec 4, 2020Dec 4, 2020
Stoicism, gratitude, and my mother.Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus were, among a long list of other things, stoics. The origin of the modern word “stoic” was derived…Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020
but, she will move mountains.In a moment of pre-teen mother-daughter angst, my strong-willed oldest stomps out of the room shouting “sorry you had to be a mother, that…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
“Unicorn Space”.Unicorn Space. Doesn’t this sound like a beautiful mental and physical space, albeit mythical, to frolic and flourish? It conjures up…Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020