Category: Communication
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In the Wee Hours
Sleeping has never been one of my abilities. I’m that light sleeper who hears every sound and wakes up and then struggles, often unsuccessfully, to try and go back to sleep. I’m up early every day, and it I make it to 5 am on the weekend I feel as if I’ve slept in! In…
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Addicted to Busy
I have never quite been able to figure out where my personal “off” switch is, physically or mentally. My mother’s most frequently used expression with me was “Would you please light somewhere?” She didn’t mean that in the “shine your light” sense but rather in the “please land and stop moving around” sense. Stillness has…
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Is Civility Dead?
There were a lot of behavioral norms drilled into me by my parents. And I passed them along to my children. As I was, they were taught to say “please” and “thank you” and “excuse me.” We all learned to be respectful of others, to treat one another with kindness and to remember that “we…
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When the Student is Ready
How often have we heard the expression, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” It’s one of those phrases I tend to grimace a bit at, feeling that “wait and see” is not really the way we make changes in our lives. And yet, I have come to realize that there is more…
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Living in Truth
Often I find that with a larger group, especially one that does not connect all that often, that starting a meeting with an “icebreaker” can be not just a good introduction but a way for folks to find points of commonality with one another. I see it as one more tool in the toolbox for…
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Baking and Leadership
Let’s start with the truth. When I was a freshman in college I had to call a friend to ask them how to boil water to make spaghetti. Truth! The only thing I ever had cooked in my life was scrambled eggs and that’s because scrambled eggs and popsicles constituted my senior year in high…
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Things I Know For Sure
There are a lot of things I don’t know. Maybe more than I do know. I will never claim to be an expert in many arenas. And I am okay with that. I know how to find answers, I know when I need someone with knowledge beyond my own to assist (at least most of…
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Families of All Sorts
Mark Frost wrote “We have two families in life. One we were born into that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that’s willing to give their life for us.” Some of us are blessed that we have families we are born into that have that connection with us and also that we…
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Counting Blessings
Maybe your mother used the expression that mine often did when I complained about something in my life that was not the way I wanted it to be. She would invariably say “count your blessings,” which was her way of saying that I didn’t know how fortunate I was. I didn’t appreciate that phrase then…
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Being Weary
It seems that, for just about as long as I can remember, tired has been a constant state of being. Not just tired but exhausted. We give our all to work, to our families and we struggle with the uncertainties and anxieties that life seems to present us in a never-ending flow. From a virus…
With a Full Heart 