This one isn’t easy, but I’ve been dancing with the challenge for so many years that I’m going to work this out with you here and let go of some... read more →
Topic: life-lessons
Some of you following my journey know that I had a pretty tough breakup last year and a serious chapter of grieving. Friends kept telling me that it was exactly... read more →
Decades ago I was a law clerk to a wonderful New Deal Democrat federal judge named J. Dickson Phillips Jr.. In my clerkship year, Judge Phillips was in his early... read more →
Just one week ago, I was planning for you to be opening this email or this LinkedIn newsletter today and reading about the fact that I was, at that moment,... read more →
If you’ve been a reader for a bit, you know I have a genetic kidney condition called Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). You also know that I wrote about the condition... read more →
I’m in the middle of that time when, if you are lucky enough, you get to help a parent or two migrate out of a long-held large home and into... read more →
Backstory: I wrote this blog post a year ago and shared it with a colleague for input. But I wasn’t going to share it more broadly…yet. It’s not quite time... read more →
Are you as happy to be back to work as I am? I hope so, and I hope you all got some time to relax, recharge, reimagine, and (speaking for... read more →
I was working with a coaching client, and we were discussing her thoughts that she was probably not the right executive to stick with her advanced startup during the run-up... read more →
Today someone thanked me for being “profoundly positive.” On hearing this, emotions flew in.First, I was touched and teary. Then, like a (mostly) unexpected left hook, the upper limit. Can... read more →
It’s the first day of the sixth month of 2021, and I’m laying it down right here so that you bear witness, and I have this blog to remind myself:... read more →
Oh golly, I screwed something up recently.I have been speaking to my nearly 16-year-old niece for a year about coming to Boulder and spending time together. I had ideas of... read more →