Power Up Relationships at Work
Everyone works at something. I don’t care if you are a volunteer or raising a family, it’s work. I was a “stay at home mom” for a couple of years and wanted to smack every person who said, “Wow, I…
Everyone works at something. I don’t care if you are a volunteer or raising a family, it’s work. I was a “stay at home mom” for a couple of years and wanted to smack every person who said, “Wow, I…
“Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her father forty whacks . . .” Remember sitting around your dark bedroom with a flashlight under your chin telling scary stories? Or standing in front of a mirror repeating Candy Man ….
[Synopsis from my Upcoming Book Called “Amazing Change”] I was born a Baptist preacher’s kid, and never before nor since have I learned so much about being a change warrior. My parents were called to churches that were struggling. Our…
I have a humor blog that I write for baby boomer women called DameNation. My articles are intended to lighten women’s lives through laughter. Thanks to this blog, I’ve become a regular contributor to Huffington Post, where it seems my humor…
My senior class was the first class in our school’s history to have Senior Skip Day revoked. Not because something we had done, but because a senior the year before had set something on fire. We were livid, filled with…
Are women harder on each other in the workplace than they are their male counterparts? I’ve heard this question posed dozens of times, and I often hear the same response from other women: Absolutely. Several female leaders I’ve talked to have…
I go to lunch with many fascinating 50+ friends only to realize that the reason I am severely depressed after lunch is because 80 percent of our conversational time was spent discussing ailments. Each of us took turns discussing a…
New Year’s resolutions are often a powerful yet perilous way to start off your new year. Why? Because too many unrealistic expectations predestine failure for New Year goals within 24-hours (check out my humor blog on this topic on Huffington…
Change is usually triggered by enormous opportunity or gut-wrenching pain. I think we know which emotion is driving our change today. I think that, because of the death of our children, we are more thoughtful today. Most of us are…
The little woman ate her breakfast quietly in the booth across from me and my husband. She was around 80 years-old, her hair thinning and a cane resting by her side. Occasionally, I would look up and we would make…
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