None of it was Easy
This weekend I went to my friend Margie’s book signing. Margie worked with her niece Michelle, an illustrator, to write “What Makes you Smile as Big as the Moon?” a delightful children’s book about emotions. [...]
A Reflective Activity for your Team
One thing I see over and over again in organizational life is our inability to slow down and be reflective. We move from one big project to the next, one urgent thing to the [...]
Interminable Delight
For a long time, I had a food/motherhood/poignant life moments blog called In Praise of Leftovers, and it pretty much turned into a poetry blog. I closed that down in January after more a dozen [...]
The Search for Insignificance
I listened to Dan Harris interview Ron Siegal this morning on "The Joys of Insignificance." What a giant flash of recognition! Yes, I'm constantly comparing myself to others. Yes, with every text or email I [...]
Hope isn’t Foolish, Especially Now
I just finished listening to Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams' The Book of Hope, and it was a very well-spent six hours. Abrams also wrote The Book of Joy with Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai [...]
Want to Grow in Self Mastery? Change your Mind
I witnessed something amazing this week. I was facilitating a group making a big decision. Before the official vote, I called on everyone to see where they were. Of course they had done some dialoguing [...]