I know nothing about Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette except for what he wrote in a memo a few days ago on Google+ announcing his resignation. I’m not one to follow business news, (I know Google helps me find stuff and I use it every day) but I am a sucker for the human...
“I wish that I could be like the cool kids, Like the cool kids they seem to fit in.” Cool Kids, Echosmith The lines from the song get stuck in my head, repeated constantly. Partly because the tune and mostly because the truth resonates. No matter the age, we all want...
It was just a few months ago, typing away in a private Facebook group for an online class, where I used this phrase, “I am a writer.” Our instructor had challenged us as a group to claim the title, writer. For many of my fellow cyber classmates I appeared to have the...
The last week and a half I’ve seen a new conversation, a mommy war of different nuance playing out, that of the mom who has her children vaccinated vs. the mom who does not. In other parenting debates of working vs. non outside the home, schooling choices and...
“Mom…you don’t have to be perfect!” I sensed a tension in her tone, but I was unsure the reason. Judgment? Disappointment? Recognition of hypocrisy personified right in front of her? My gaze moved from the mirror and landed on this girl standing next to me. This...
What if you are entering 2015 with no resolutions but survival? Or maintaining the status quo? What if there is no big word to live into? Or the word is something you don’t want to share? Like sobriety? Or grief? Just a shout out that if name it and claim it is not...
