Christmas Past

I always wondered what a ‘normal’ Holiday Season felt like…without deadlines…without exhaustion…without hypervigilence. For 30 years, Christmas time was our marathon race with year-long lessons learned. It was our report card time to validate every effort of the past 11 months in serving our customers and staff better than the years before. Having a seasonal [...]

#2 Grandson

Dylan is 9. He is an uber athlete, killer on any baseball field or basketball court. He’s in a gifted math class, a finalist in his school’s Geography Bee, a rockin’ trumpet player in his school’s band,  and his name has been on the Principal’s List more than once for all the right reasons.  Although [...]

Age of Community

My neighbor, Renee, knocked on my door in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. She decided to host a Winter Solstice party that evening, and invited my husband and I to join with her community of friends. At 3pm, there would be a Circle for Men, another for Women. At 5pm, we could enjoy a [...]

CHOICE POINT

I need your input. Every Sunday, for more than 100 blog posts now, I sit down and write. The discipline is good. The wordsmithing sharpens my saw. But, here’s the deal: just like Tinkerbell, I need applause to live!  I need connection, interaction, dialogue. I need YOU! By now, you’ve got to know that technology [...]