Mixing Womanhood with BusinessHood
Last week my mother entered a hospice program, and the next day a daughter-in-law gave birth. Mixing womanhood with businesshood at this most intimate level left nothing within me but gratitude. Gratitude that this is my life, the life I chose and am now able to live, to help my mom out of bed and […]
Languages We Speak
The first time I drove in New York City I was 19 and scared out of my mind! Here was this Minnesota girl steering her green nova through streets that were unfamiliar and had me feeling like I was in a foreign country. I wanted to see New York City since I was a little […]
How Wisdom Trumps Smart
When I was a student at the local school, I was often referred to as “smart.” And why would that be? Looking back through cardboard boxes of school stuff, I achieved the same high marks year after year. Which, I now understand, meant I was smart. As a young academic, maybe, but as a full-rounded […]
What Is In It For Me
Here I find myself looking over my shoulder to see if someone is fast-tracking or an electric cart is close, voices overhead speaking fast and loud. You guessed it, I am in the airport walking to my next gate. So early, like usual, walking fast, like normal, and paying attention to the activity around me. […]
If I gave the HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS at my high school, 2022.
As far as commencement speeches go, this might be considered non-commencement material. Because telling you that you can go out and change the world or, for that matter, change anyone is not so. I have a different story to tell, and it begins like this. Take a look around. Can you change the person beside […]