My Witness

As many of you know, my husband Derrick died in 2017.  And as you may have also gathered from my social media post, I have a new person in my life - Bill.  While I do share our adventures, I rarely talk about how this relationship came to be.  But this morning, it showed itself …

We are all in this together

For the past three weeks I have been living in Crescent City, California.  I needed to stop and re-evaluate how I can make this life sustainable. But also, I need to figure out how do I stay intellectually stimulated and continue to contribute to the personal and professional growth of business, community and myself; on …

Crying at Costco

Today I brought my Actifry back to Costco for refund.  I love how easy it is to return things to Costco. No receipt, no problem; they have a history of every item I have ever purchased.  The data analyst in me, gets the warm fuzzies every time they look up a receipt for me.  This …

Mixed Emotions

Another Father's Day is upon us and Facebook is flooded with well wishes, and the grieving.  Profile pictures are being changed all through my network to, dads and kids. I'm not judging this tradition, I did it myself; every year on Father's Day I changed my profile picture to 2 year old, pudgy faced me; hugging my …

Family

I have met many brave people in my lifetime, but some really shine and have impacted my ability to be brave myself.  The first time I knew I was in the presence of the naturally brave, she was only 10; when she took a chance and let me into her life.  She could have made …

Grief in the Workplace

Most people will tell you they rarely think about death.  However, on an unconscious level our fear of it, impacts the decisions we make every day. To deny the reality of the finite nature of our human existence, can lead us to being ill-equipped to deal with death.  Organizations tend to be mostly concerned with …