Do you juggle? I mean, not professionally in the circus or anything like that. (But hey, if you do, cool!) I mean the Juggle of Life. The career obligations. The family obligations.The personal needs and plans and desires. The spouse and the kids and the house and the...
Like many women I know, I am wired to work. Driven, I would describe myself. Committed, I’ve been called. Ambitious, I’ve heard them say, sometimes in a way that makes it sound less like a positive quality and more of a character flaw. (Ambition is NOT a...
It occurs to me as I write this that we are surrounded. By dozens and hundreds and thousands of invisible, powerful, ever-changing things. By air molecules and dust spores, yes. By tiny single-celled organisms that live in our eyelashes and intestines, true. (And,...
I’ve thought for some time about what this day would be like. It is Day One of Wow, I’m Suddenly Unemployed (by Choice). For the first time in 24 years, with the exception of scheduled vacations and some deserved time off after pushing out each of my...
Honesty is the best policy. I know that. And while a little white lie never hurt anyone, there are some you never forget. Like one I told twenty-five years ago. To an American icon. It was the summer of 1992 and before I began my senior year at the University of...
