It’s time for my final post for 2020. I took a look back at the posts that performed the best this year, and I’m sharing them here. Why I don’t call other women “Karen” (unless that’s their name) Note: The “Karen” post didn’t perform all that much better than any of my other posts when […]
When “One More Day” eludes us
Kym Klass wears a semicolon necklace. The necklace is related to the death by suicide of her sister, Katie. In Kym’s book, One More Day, she shares about her personal journey through multiple traumatic events in her life. One of those was Katie’s death by suicide on October 31, 2015. Kym and I have been […]
Two-tenths more – going beyond
BEYOND There’s a trap we all fall into. Maybe it’s presumptuous to say all of us do, so I’ll own this specifically for myself. When we need to change something, we hesitate because we can’t make that change happen in the big, absolute, life-changing way we envision. I’ve gotten into a really horrific exercise rut. […]
Teen empowerment and 41 homeless children (Nov. at SmartBrief)
November was a full month, personally and professionally. On the personal side, I gained a daughter-in-law on my birthday (welcome to the family, Patience!). On the professional side, I got to explore eight new favorite stories at SmartBrief. I’ve also added the most-clicked story for each brief so you can see what captured people’s interest […]
Make yourself at home
GRATEFUL “Make yourself at home” My sister-in-law has a little magnet on the extra refrigerator in her laundry room that says “make yourself at home.” (I tried to grab a quick picture of it on Thanksgiving Day, but the picture turned out blurry, so no visuals — just trust me!).. The reason I took that […]
Telling Layla’s story
GRIEF I didn’t understand when I volunteered to help write biographies of transgender people who had been murdered in 2020 exactly what the plan was. (I’m sure that had all been explained in a meeting, but I was new to the group.) In short, we were assigned to write a longer biography that would be […]