Category: Living well
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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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Reclaiming Joy
It has been a rough couple of years for all of us. We’ve struggled with isolation, with virus anxiety, with uncertainty, with being away from family. For those of us who work in healthcare, the pressure has been extraordinary and the exhaustion, even now, is profound. So many days we have felt as if we’ve…
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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…
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In the Space
I’ve been asked what the most difficult moment in my life has been. There are lots of challenging moments in all of our personal and professional lives, mine included. But I don’t even have to ponder that question as one moment and one image springs immediately to mind. Perhaps it is the same for you.…
With a Full Heart 