Sometimes I compare strategic planning to cleaning out the sock drawer. Here’s why: it’s a time to decide what to continue, what to stop and what to add. For my sock drawer, I dump everything out [...]
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Sabrina Braham on her podcast, Women’s Leadership Success. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: How to stop being afraid or [...]
Hindsight is always 20/20. At least that’s the expression. Looking back we can see why something went wrong, but the reasons may not have been apparent at the time. Yet too few of us, in either [...]
Last week, my friend Martha came to visit from Vancouver and together we hosted dinner party. We cooked great food and put out flowers, candles, crisp linen napkins, gleaming silver, fine china [...]
Over the weekend I had lunch with a dear friend who has been like another sister to me for decades. She’s scheduled for surgery this week and, as any reasonable person would, is feeling [...]
It’s been one hundred years since the birth sisters of Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren (nee Friedman). These two women became legendary, giving sound, practical, frequently humorous advice in [...]
When you work with leaders of high growth companies, you might expect to see these high profile people “hit the wall,” where they can’t do it any longer or get depressed and angry – [...]
My husband died eighteen months ago, and lately I have found myself listening to audio books. They keep me company while I’m cooking, something Umberto usually did. And when I clean up. I listen [...]
One wears black robes while the other is best known for changing into his sweater and tennis shoes. One deals with law which affects the country and the other with a neighborhood—a fantasy one at [...]
We all have a negative voice in our head. Arianna Huffington calls hers the obnoxious roommate. Willis Harman called it the voice of judgment (VOJ), and I call it the Triple J: the Jury, Judge, [...]