The Personal Journey
When Your Heart is Breaking…
Last month, I found out that a friend who lives in another state had been battling cancer for a year, and was in hospice. Two days ago, Robin died, leaving behind a devoted husband and a millennial daughter. Grief is demanding. It draws my attention to the loss at hand. When I first heard that…
Read MorePlaying the Long Game
It was another first for me. I watched a press conference for the introduction of a new head coach. I’ve gone into the deep end of sports fan geekdom. My husband says this is how I must feel when he watches obscure golf videos. For those of you who are not into women’s basketball, the…
Read MoreThe Love Seat
Recently, I thought of the movie, Witness. It came out in 1985, and was about being seen and unseen. Harrison Ford plays a cop who goes undercover in an Amish community to protect a woman and her young son, who happened to be the sole witness to a brutal murder. To witness, accidentally, can be dangerous. But what if…
Read MoreMom Tried To Tell Me This 25 Years Ago
Several years ago, I was in a personal development course, where I heard something that seemed so outlandish that I dismissed it. What I heard was that one of our purposes for being on Earth was to learn how to have fun. It seemed so frivolous, so unserious, so…not me. It was like the Tina…
Read MoreI Never Thought I Would…
A friend, Terry, emailed me today about collaborating on project around story-telling. Story has been in my wheelhouse for awhile, from the time that I started blogging in 2005 and writing personal essays about raising kids and being self-employed to running “brand story” workshops to guiding clients on telling a compelling narrative on their LinkedIn…
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