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Back in the day when in-person conferences were still a thing, I recall an instance where I was sitting in my chair during a session feel...

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I find that describing and characterizing my emotions is often elusive. Words hardly seem adequate for the many visceral states of being...

Like many parents, I've been scrambling to figure out how to manage homeschooling while working remotely. This week so far, I've invested...

I remember when I stepped into my first leadership role where I actually had power. All the times before that I was leading without autho...

A few years ago, I had an experience where there was a communication problem. And instead of bringing the problem to the attention of the...

"What's enabled you to continue making progress on your work with everything else going on?" A colleague recently asked me this question,...

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It happened to me the other week. I was looking forward to participating in a virtual community gathering, but I was burnt out from stari...

While we were hiking on the trails behind my house, my daughter announced from behind after she insisted we walked in front of her, "I mi...