As if a pandemic wasn’t enough, we entered June with riots and looting. After pillaging Oakland and San Francisco, the thugs came north and East to Walnut Creek. We’re a nice little town with a trendy shopping area made up of lots of little boutiques and restaurants as well as Read more
And, just like that, the second month of quarantine has passed. It’s become a new way to live, though I still can’t bring myself to accept the idea that this is how we are to live forever. Over the last month, the reality slowly dawned that absent a vaccine, everything Read more
One month, a thousand days Today, March 11, marks one month since everything came to a screeching halt and we were sent home. The COVID19 virus had been named, identified and was rapidly spreading in the US. As I was trying to finish my move to California, the numbers diagnosed Read more
Since the ending of my last position and my involuntary transition from the UK to the US in July 2018, there have been many endings – both personally and professionally. While traumatic, there has also been a sense of healing and recovery during the past 18 months in Chicagoland. I Read more
One of my LinkedIn connections posted a request for input on some questions regarding how your faith carries into your work life. I prepared a response, and then thought it would be a good idea to post it here. . . How does your faith inform your leadership and vice Read more
Earlier this year, as I set down my goals for 2019, I decided that I really needed to get some races into my diary. My last race was in May of 2018, a 10-miler in London that didn’t go so well as the winter was brutal and I hadn’t been Read more
After college, I entered the ‘real’ world. I still loved running, but now, I wasn’t on a team or under the direction of a coach to run a specific time or distance. I also married my first husband (my high school sweetheart) about 6 months after graduating. I remember my Read more
As a young child, I was dreadful at the typical sports played by children in the 1970’s. I had amblyopia (commonly known as ‘lazy eye’ where one eye is weaker than the other) and strabismus (where the eyes don’t work together). To put it simply, I had no hand-eye coordination Read more
As the third of four girls, growing up, I rarely had my own clothing that no one else had worn before. I can count the number of new outfits I wore during the first 16 or 18 years of my life on both hands. Compounding this issue was attending Catholic Read more
Many will remember the George Clooney movie about terminating employees, and have a laugh at the idea of George flying around the world to exit people. Of course, that didn’t end well, but every once in a while, based on what I do professionally, I get a dig about being Read more