I walked by my husband’s work space this morning and something caught my eye. 6 yellow Post-it notes down the side of his computer screen. That is weird. I’ve never seen him do that. My husband has worked for the...

I know you have probably said this to yourself more than once.  I know I have. “It’s been a year.” When the pandemic hit my main source of income, recruiting, came to a screeching halt. My future source of income...

My very first friend passed away this week. Her parents and my parents lived in the same apartment complex since when we were both born until we were 4 when we moved to Michigan and they moved to Central Illinois....

I was recently working with a client who is on job search. I was prepping them for an interview. I am sure that their attitude towards the interview process started out positively but, several interviews later with no successful offers,...

I have gained some weight and I am not happy about it. I could blame 2020 and no one would fault me. Yet, even if the isolation and low-level anxiety of the pandemic contributed to my overeating, the fact is...

I’m on the phone with a friend as she was driving away from Starbucks. She was trying to convince me to order her new favorite latte. (Chai tea latte with oat milk and 3 pumps brown sugar syrup in case...

I’m reading a great book called Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Olga Mecking. Niks, in Dutch, means nothing. And the verb, niksen, means doing nothing, specifically without a goal or purpose in mind. To do nothing...

I was talking with a young woman who had recently been laid off. She was unhappy. I listened to her talk and could feel both her fear and her blame: It will take me so long to find a new...

I was listening to a recent call and the speaker said that your brain responds to the command 5 4 3 2 1 GO! She had heard about this from Mel Robbins – author of the book The 5 Second Rule. Which...

I am in the process of decluttering. One of the hardest things, so far, is decluttering my book collection. I LOVE to read. I LOVE books. I LOVE story. A great story – whether in books, a great TV show, a documentary, a...