Yesterday my daughter and I had an exchange that brought me to instant tears. Big, sudden, happy, relieved, awe-inspired tears. A couple of weeks ago we were in Hawaii. Much of it was a wonderful experience, but there was one particularly poignant and memorable moment with...
***I didn't post a blog last week because I couldn't bring myself to post this in the aftermath of the enormous natural disaster in the Philippines. As someone with a platform, I feel it is my duty to hold space for their stories, not my...
I have a family member who is a partner in a large firm. One night, during a holiday dinner he casually mentions that his firm created a special "non-equity partnership" position for peope who deserve to be partners, but for some reason aren't able to...
fWhen my parents had me - their third, unexpected child in 1978 - we lived in a small, three bedroom duplex in the small town of Kearney, Missouri. My Dad was a highschool science teacher. For extra money, he coached track and drove the school...
Less than a week after I brought my first baby home, after the post-birthing euphoria wore off, after all the relatives had cooed, cuddled, and given back the baby -- I fell silently, like a deflating balloon, into a bout of despair. I had nothing or...
I read an article a couple of weeks ago that won't stop buzzing around in my brain like an irritating house fly. I feel the urge to pick at it like a ripe scab; take it apart, exam its premise and file it under nonsense....
I timed the birth of my first child to coincide with the end of my company's fiscal quarter. I did this so that I would only lose one quarter's worth of commissions, instead of two. I was already using rubber bands to "button" to my work pants when I reluctantly...
This is a famous painting from 1638 by Peter Paul Rubins called The Three Graces. These women depict the Goddess daughters of Zeus, and by 17th century standards, they are exquisitely beautiful. The first time I laid eyes on a "Rubinesque" woman I couldn't stop playing the 'what...