i’ll call her lucy

i’ll call her lucy

She was speeding around from table-to-table like a bee to flowers, all 4 feet of her, her gray hair in a buzz cut.    I’ll call her Lucy.  It was a warm summer afternoon in 2021 and the pandemic era shut down was slowly beginning to ease.  We still wore masks and held...
Rise. Shine.

Rise. Shine.

As this year inches out through our busy holiday season and we prepare to welcome a fresh crop of days, weeks, and months ahead, one cannot help but ponder the myriad of demands placed on our personal bandwidth each day and especially during the holidays. A recent...
the american dream: another look

the american dream: another look

What are some words that come to mind when you hear the terms: DIVERSITY     IMMIGRANT      WOMAN     REFUGEE     MINORITY I recently put this question to a varied set of people of differing demographics. From age to aptitude and gender to geography, these subjects...
the child within

the child within

“all those who wonder are not off-track” – toniya The Summer I turned 57 my girlfriends took me on an hour-long train ride for my birthday. Now I am not particularly drawn to trains or love them or anything, but that was about to change. The day of...
roar on!

roar on!

In the early years of my consultancy I readily worked for very little or no money. I thought, as a newbie in the marketplace, this was a good way to get my name out into the business community. As straightforward as this logic appeared to me, within the first five...