Aha! Jackpot! It was the one time I was truly thankful that my mom was a pack rat. She had long since moved out of my childhood home, whittled her life's belongings into a more curated (but still large) collection of boxes, but she insisted on dropping a clear storage tub of my memorabilia at …
Continue reading You Can’t Take it With You…But What if You Could?
People often ask me, "Isn't it so hard to leave your kids every morning?" Nope, not at all, because when I leave the whole house is still fast asleep. The hardest part is actually coming home. This sounds shocking, I know. And it's not an easy thing to admit. But it's the truth. I spend …
Thanks to the other woman in my marriage- First I erased the clutter in my closet. Then I erased the clutter in my diet (but more on that soon). Now I need to do something about the disaster that is my calendar. Between work and personal commitments, not to mention the kids' lives- we're utterly …
Mother's Day is a special day indeed. But my Mother's Day is mine. And I don't really want to share it with anyone else. I mean, I'm glad for the women who are moms, and the women who have moms and stuff, but it kinds ends there. I don't know why I'm seeing social media …
No better waste of time than human resources training, am I right? That's what many say. But today was different. Today it was personal. Today we put years' worth of my feelings into words. Words like inclusiveness, and unconscious bias, and stereotype threat, and bystander effect. Today we were asked hard questions. Today I realized …
Continue reading Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Workplace Inclusiveness and Me
I have always had a serious case of frienvy. I can finally admit that, knowing full well it is never going to change. The way I "friend" is just not compatible with the friendship style I've coveted my whole life. Have you ever been to a wedding where 16 bridesmaids walk down the aisle with …
I am spending my spring on the sidelines. I no longer commit to birthday parties or barbecues or frankly anything to do with family or friends. My weekends are fully encompassed by sports. Not professional sports, pee wee sports. Between 2 young boys (I'm talking single-digit aged) we are all-in with baseball (3 teams), soccer …
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