Featured
Photo by Gary Spears on Pexels.com "let every heart prepare him room"Isaac Watts, "Joy to the World" It's two weeks until Christmas, and despite all of my best-intentioned preparation plans, I've crossed off very few items on my list of things to do. I suspect I'm not alone in this mid-December Saturday morning realization. The…
Featured
A birthday gift from November 2001, picture taken at the World Trade Center memorial in NYC days after 9/11. 20 years ago today, I was attending a conference held on the Genentech campus in South San Francisco, California. We were split up into working teams and I was sitting next to a woman I'd just…
Continue reading ➞ Memories of the week when everything changed
Featured
Photo by Amina Filkins on Pexels.com When I was younger, my mom had a subscription to Ladies Home Journal, among a few other magazines. One of my favorite columns to read, even as a young girl, was "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" The column would start with a recap of a situation, then the wife…
Continue reading ➞ Can’t we just go back to the way it was before?
Featured
Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay Like many of you probably do each year, toward the end of last year I made a promise to myself to get a fresh start in 2021 and try to concentrate on what's working and why, what isn't working so well and why, and what I want to do…
Sometimes you feel like your head might explode Watching the news these days, when I get past the anger and profound sadness at what I see and hear on a daily basis, all that comes to mind is this scene with the incomparable Viola Davis from the movie "The Help;" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97a8a22eyvg Something has happened in…
Featured
When I was researching and preparing for our trip to Portugal last year, the word saudade kept coming up. Saudade:a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never…
A reflection on Lent, renewal, and the quiet ways prayers are answered There’s a part of me that, in years past, would have looked at this weekend’s forecast and felt immediate disappointment. Rain, all weekend. Plans rearranged. My beautifully planned outdoor Easter tablescape rendered useless. I might have selfishly had a general sense that something…
Retirement isn't just about stepping away from work. It's about learning how to relate to time differently.
Just before Thanksgiving, I finally pulled the trigger and retired from corporate life. I was ready, and it felt earned, although I didn’t fully realize how ready until I stepped into this new season. To my surprise, the transition felt natural, even easy. It’s been a world of possibility and opportunity. And more than once…
Continue reading ➞ Life is what happens when you are making other plans
Which one first? My husband is a voracious reader. I like to read but have found that after a day of handling emails and slack messages and spreadsheets, I don't set aside the time for reading in my free time that I would like to. Dave does continue to suggest books occasionally, and a few…
Hmmm, does this look like he loves her, or that he might want to strangle her? 🙂 Well, here we are, a little over a week after my knee replacement surgery. Recovery is going well, probably even better than I might have hoped. I'm more mobile than expected and can even get around the house…
"I only talk to God when I need a favor. God, I need a favor" - Jelly Roll I once had a friend tell me that for some people, it's much easier to minister to others than to accept ministry from others. We were talking about someone else at the time, but over the years…
Photo by Polina u2800 on Pexels.com "A boss has the title, a leader has the people." - Simon Sinek I returned home from our annual company kickoff meeting last Friday evening. It's a common cadence in most sales organizations - everyone comes together, learns the themes and messaging that the organization wants us to spread…
e·piph·a·ny [əˈpifənē] a Christian holy day (traditionally January 6) that celebrates the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or become conscious of, something that is very important to you It's not exactly true that I had an epiphany on the Epiphany, but it does…
Red Chair Reflections 