The Leadership Blog

For about five minutes last week, my daughter disappeared into the universe.

There is a great quote by Buddhist Jack Kornfield that goes, “After ecstasy, the laundry.” I am reminded of it now because we are just coming off of an amazing weekend at the wedding of my husband’s...

I turn 42 tomorrow.

Chaos. Madness. Destruction. Doom and Gloom.

My three-year-old son Dylan has recently taken quite a liking to the Alicia Keys’ song “Girl On Fire” and as such it is not uncommon for us to be in a store and hear him suddenly belt out at the top...

When I love you, it’s really easy to love you. But when you do things that make me not love you, well than it’s really hard to love you.

There was a fire in my dorm just before Christmas of my freshman year at college. Far from my own room, but serious enough to cause a middle-of-the-night evacuation with most of us in our pjs and...

It is time for our annual administrative retreat, wherein we disappear into the woods for a few days and hopefully come out refreshed, reinvigorated, and clearly focused on the goals and plans for...

Here’s how laundry goes in my house:

My son woke up very early this morning, as he often does, wanting the last part of his sleep to be snuggled up in our bed. I love watching him sleep—the sounds he makes; the way he settles his body;...