SHE This week, Kat Bouska asked, “Who would you cast in the role of your parents in a movie about your life?” It’s Mother’s Day weekend, so I thought about suggesting who would play my mom in a movie about our life. I came up blank, and the Star By Face celebrity lookalike app only […]
Failure, Success and the Home Team
My April weekends were full of bridal showers (my daughter is getting married soon and my niece three weeks after that), Easter and a second COVID-19 vaccine. On the work front, here are the stories that stood out the most last month: BoardSource So often, I’ll read an article for work and will feel that […]
Is work broken?
As various pictures of previous Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Days popped up in my Timehop over the last couple of days, I wondered how the event was handled during the pandemic. (Answer: I don’t know what people did last year, but this year they went virtual.) My kids are grown now, so […]
Why think a baby knows what’s OK?
PERMISSION My cousin, Frances, died yesterday (she’s in the plaid shirt in the picture below). There’s a story that I always remember about Frances — because it’s one of the earliest times I didn’t think something through in a situation that could have put someone else in danger. Frances and her husband had adopted a […]
An opportunity to give
PRESSURE I read this week’s prompt really quickly on Thursday night, so I’ve spent the time between then and now thinking the prompt was “press.” AND … what I have to talk about barely relates to “press” much less “pressure.” In March, I participated in a Random Act of Kindness along with other friends of […]
If your house is on fire, forget about the propane tank
Hello! Every month, I share my favorite SmartBrief stories from the prior month. I’m writing this on Easter. I was all set to hunker down at my laptop this afternoon to write this post when my husband and I got a last-minute invitation to join family we’ve barely seen over the past pandemic year for […]