It’s amazing the clarity that a moment of stillness can bring. In one of my favorite books, the main character is fallen in love with in a moment of stillness. She is a busy character, brusque and hearty, pushing her way through the world doing good deeds, never still. Sick people find her a little …
As the team that acted as the sole filter of work assignments from the home office to the stores, my team and I effectively became the “crossroads” of the company – more than any other department, we knew and had great relationships with people in other departments. We had to: our success relied upon it …
Just after Thanksgiving, a manager told me that one of her employees had to go on short-term disability to get mental health care because the election results upset him so much. The punchline was that, when the manager called Human Resources to arrange for the STD, HR said this was the third case that week. …
Three years ago, my mother put her dream house on the market and moved 11 hours away to live near my sister and the grandchildren. When I visited her two years ago, she was still camping out in her new house and it seemed like she was camping out in her new life. She was …
People who have known me for a while may remember that I used to keep a framed poem on my desk that said, “There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum… I could have coped with dragons.” (From a poem by Niki Nymark.) I liked this poem because …
