Category: Decision making
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Filling the Space
How often I say the words “life changes in the space between one heartbeat and the next.” Many, if not all of us, have learned the truth of those words. We learn that truth in pain, in grief, in trauma. We struggle to accept the reality of loss, battling between our rational mind that knows…
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Light somewhere
Someone asked me yesterday what I was like as a child. Was I petulant, rebellious, compliant? What words would I use to describe myself? It was a question that I both felt I should be able to answer instantly and one that I really had to think about for a moment. How would I describe…
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Finding Fierce
We had the gift of a vacation for the last week. Not just the “at home” vacation that we often have that finds me with more projects than time and not the “visit the kids” vacation which is always a busy whirlwind and never long enough. Nope, this was a real vacation away from our…
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Think of it as
There were many times when my kids were young and small things went awry. We were on our long-awaited amusement park vacation and it was pouring rain. Our flights were delayed and we had to spend an unexpected night away. We are all very familiar with this kind of situation, when things don’t always turn…
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Horse of a Different Color
What does how we look say about us? What does it say in a professional context and what does it say in a personal context? We live in a world where the sweat pants culture has become the absolute norm. And, don’t get me wrong, leggings are a part of my life every single day.…
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Blessings
It is so easy to fall into the “cranky” mode, especially this season. It’s a season of too much to do—the year ending professionally and personally, holidays and obligations and commitments that seem to have no limit and no end. I find myself sometimes muttering that I’d really like to “get a life.” That’s my…
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Expiration Dates
It was a strange and somewhat unsettling week for me. I’ve been a part of the board of my national association for more than a decade, been honored to serve in a variety of leadership roles and been privileged to express my opinions and thoughts at a level where they can, I hope, make a…
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In the Name of Love
At a national conference that I’m attending, we enter the general reception area by walking across a “bridge” that was created by putting up some pieces of chain link fence and creating a pathway that simulates that bridge. As you reached the bridge, you were greeted by a staff member who explained it was the…
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Wearing Costumes
It’s days until Halloween. Around our area there are so many homes decorated with witches and ghosts, pumpkins and devils. Cobwebs stretch from rooftops and across trees and one of our neighbors even has a set of shelves, five high, in the front yard that is filled with carved pumpkins, all lit and flickering after…
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The Ping Pong of Worries
What a strange moment in time this is, although maybe they are all strange and I am just seeing it more clearly right now. I really don’t know. Most of the time, I have my own set of worries that travel like an endless loop, cycling through my thoughts when I am not otherwise occupied.…
With a Full Heart 