There is nothing like spending time with family and friends that you have know for decades. I can’t help but wonder how common it is for people to get married, move away, and have children in a new place. After all, how common is it that people from the same town fall in love and…
The first month of launching my modern website it was on the domain onlinecollection.org which I had bought years ago and used for a variety of purposes- a cooking blog, a student teacher blog, a place to store things on the cloud, to experiment, make websites for my students… The first month I made my…
Just before studying for my MBA, I had the fortune of being connected with a recent graduate of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies who created a nonprofit leadership development program for high school students, supported by college coaches. His name was John Renehan. He and his college buddies created a village for youth development,…
For a while, my husband was working from home for his job. That meant, any time one of our three children had an after school program, play date, or birthday party I could leave the other kid(s) home with him and drive or transport them by foot around the neighborhood without any issues. But about…
I’ve been reflecting about what it means to really thrive in life, and how this fits with the metaphors of hatch and bloom. When a chick hatches from an egg, it has no idea what it’s getting into. Its whole world has been a sphere and it seemed plenty big. But when the egg cracks…
How does money impact the topic of freedom vs. slavery? When you are paid for your labor, it gives you the ability to pay others for their labor. So we can all give and receive. Yet some things are a labor of love – things you would do without pay because they are intrinsically rewarding….
I like it when people come to meetings with a solution orientation. By this I mean, an attitude that whatever challenge arises we can consider ways to solve it. It’s much better to hear a proposed solution than someone complaining all the time. While we want to be truthful and practical about where we are…
Since I live in my husband’s country, a different country than where I grew up, I sometimes find myself speaking a different language to people who don’t know me yet. Sometimes they inadvertently cut me off mid-sentence and say “you can say it in English” very eager to speak in their second language and make…
My story begins in the second grade. I learned about the civil rights movement, how people of different races have not always had the same ease of moving forward in society, and how women and men haven’t either for that matter. But as I grew I never felt that being a women held me back…