I got no resolutions. But man do I have a full heart. I will not bore you with a laundry list of things I'm grateful for; let me just...

I don't have a very good poker face. I spoke these truths. Directly. Politely. To my boss. Do you know what happened next?

A robust, white man with white hair in his mid-70s. The last thing I expected was for him to give the most common sense, bilingual and ecume

I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but I just have to share this because I think it will resonate with a lot of people! Before I...

It’s been a week. Professionally, I’m making a change. It’s my last week with a wonderful company in the education industry and after a couple weeks off, starting tomorrow, I’ll be entering a new industry (construction), new role, new company. I updated my LinkedIn profile and apparently aged ten years overnight. I’ve been up and down and all around with feelings and tasks. Transitioning out of a role, at least the way I do it, is intense. It takes major organizational skills

I’ve been craving Hamilton. Weird, right? Craving a musical. I watched the film version a couple of years ago and fell in love. I cringed at the thought of spending two-plus hours in front of a screen watching something I’ve already seen but this past weekend, while driving back to Live Oak from Miami, I listened to the soundtrack. I listened, I laughed, I cried, and I was in awe. I won’t pretend to know why Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to write that story. Maybe he wanted to s

I've been on the edge of a downward spiral. I've been getting overwhelmed, feeling anxious and my elder-but-millenial-nonetheless need for instant gratification has been showing up around here way too often. What this often looks like is me being the opposite of mindful and present and just sitting around in front of the current task, ignoring it, and swimming in negative thoughts. A few days ago this meant reaching over to Nick and saying "I'm in a funk. We're never going to

I was first introduced to this idea when I worked at a Reggio-Emilia-inspired Quaker pre-school in Durham, North Carolina; an awesome...

The day after I wrote my first blog post I told my good friend and mentor that she should check it out. She took a quick look right away...