A Leader’s Legacy

A Leader’s Legacy

For the last several years I’ve made it a practice to observe the Martin Luther King Day holiday by re-reading his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.  King penned the letter while in solitary confinement, writing first in the margins of a newspaper that had been...
Respectful Disagreements

Respectful Disagreements

A doctor, an organization’s president, a front-line retail associate. No, this is not the intro to a bad joke. It is the job title of three people that I had similar conversations with over the past week. The three people have absolutely no connection and the...
Holiday Connections

Holiday Connections

I was walking out to the mailbox when I noticed an elaborate project being built in my neighbor’s front yard. It looked like quite the engineering feat; I commented on the workmanship, and we struck up a physically distant conversation – him on the front porch, and me...
Be Legendary

Be Legendary

I was standing in my stairwell headed down the stairs when my husband’s cell phone rang. It was our youngest son calling from college mid afternoon that Sunday. I could overhear the conversation. My son was calling to talk about something that surely was one of those...
Core Values as the Foundation for Inclusion

Core Values as the Foundation for Inclusion

Let’s be honest, sometimes the word “values” gets used as a weapon. We sometimes even use the concept of Values to intentionally create division. We make a claim of having “values,” when we are really claiming that we have “the right values,” resulting in values being...
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