May you enjoy all the things that are magical about the holiday season with those you hold dear and may you have peace in your heart, a sparkle in your eye, and a lightness in your soul. This I wish for you - for all of us - embrace joy. This is my greeting card this [...]
I never imagined I would be an Ethel, until I was. I believed for a long time that being an Ethel meant doing what was expected and safe. Frankly, being an Ethel seemed dull. Not that anyone saw me as an Ethel, everyone assumed I was all Lucy, all the time. But the line between [...]
Well, hello there. You may not remember me as my last blog entry was in late 2014. Prior to that blog entry I amassed over 1,800 blog entries over a five year period. I guess you could say blogging was "my thing" - until it wasn't. Moving from daily blogging to periodic blogging to no [...]
Yesterday was Miss Sparkle's last day of ninth grade. It left her a little melancholy. It left me a little melancholy as well. A whole year passed so quickly. I never cease to be amazed at how quickly the time goes. I confess that I was happy to be relieved of the additional time burden [...]
Every year, for the past half a dozen years, I have roomed with my friend Mary for the annual International Association of Emergency Managers conference. The handful of days we spend at the conference each year are always a whirlwind of catching up and creating new memories. We talk, we laugh, we work, and we [...]
One of the greatest gifts I have received in this lifetime has been the gift of being surrounded by amazing women. Not perfect women, not famous women, not super women - real women - the kind of women that have not had flawless, pristine lives and immaculately kept houses. My women - indeed, my girls [...]
Some of the buildings on the EMI campus have card access. There is an official looking panel on the wall when you enter in the lobby of these controlled-access buildings where a light turns green when you swipe your card. When returning to the building that my room is in this afternoon the green light [...]
THE NEW FORTY 