Dear Amazing and Beautiful Young Women, Please turn on the news.  I know you don’t watch much news but I beg you to pay attention to the stories about Harvey Weinstein.  This is not a Hollywood story…this is our reality as women.  I have experienced abuse of power and...

I've recently been breaking my own rule and paying the price.  The rule is...Always Double to Avoid Trouble and be successful.  It works like this...  If I think a task will take me 2 days...my promise is 4 days to deliver.  If I think it will take me 2 weeks, I say...

I was struck by a story on CBS’s Sunday Morning, “Rebuilding America's pool of construction workers.”  The story begins with the growing lack of skilled construction workers.  The statistics are fascinating and speak to a bigger picture of our jobs focused economic...

My public library recently had a sale.  Fill a bag of books for $3!  Can you say…”Heaven on Earth” for this book lover?  I geekly skipped around the sections when I was stopped in my tracks by a young boy…10-years old I’m guessing.  He excitedly said to another young...

Yesterday was the anniversary of my dad’s accident.  It will forever be labeled as “the accident.”  Everyone has these moments in their lives.  You remember exactly where you were and how you heard.  The events around your version of the “the accident” are vivid. I...

Last week was one of those weeks.  I was determined to get through the pile on my desk, get the calls made that have been put off for months, service my car, and figure out my phone since my new replacement wasn’t fully working already.  I dived in, beat myself up...