The Night I Became a Movie Star! **

The Night I Became a Movie Star! **

by | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized

** Actually, the night I worked as an extra on a film set, but why quibble over the details?  This week, I had the opportunity to check an item off my “bucket list”: I worked as an extra for a film that was shooting in downtown DC! Actually, it’s a...
It Did It! My “I Did” List

It Did It! My “I Did” List

by | Feb 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

In addition to my To Do list, I started making an I Did list. Will it help cure my “pandemic brain?”   I don’t know about you, but 11 months into this thing, I’m getting what I call “pandemic brain.” I forget things. I...
My Word for 2021: Patience

My Word for 2021: Patience

by | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

Each year, I try to pick a word as my focus for the year. It’s part wish, part aspiration, part dream (as Cinderella sang, “A dream is a wish your heart makes…”). What was my word for 2020, the craziest, most unpredictable, most rollercoaster-y...
That Time I Didn’t Know I Was Broken

That Time I Didn’t Know I Was Broken

by | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized

A couple of months ago, on my first day out on my new roller skates – skates I had spent six weeks searching for, and that I had to order from another country because good quad skates were so scarce – I fell. I fell right on my butt and my right hand. Go...
Just Say Thank You

Just Say Thank You

by | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized

As I write this post during the week of Thanksgiving 2020, I have one simple, but powerful, suggestion for you: Just Say Thank You. Take time this week to reach out to every colleague, every employee, every volunteer (or, if you work in a large organization, as many...