The Leadership Blog

I never understood the stories about children who allegedly drew on walls or destroyed family furniture. My five-year-old daughter was never like that and has always been one who likes to please, to...

Last week I tried to “do it all” in the most over-used, traditional doing-it-all way: I tried to act as both a stay-at-home mom and a full-time-working mom.

In the year between graduating from college and returning for grad school, I spend much of my time as a waitress/sometimes assistant-manager at a busy local restaurant.

I hate the “take-off” portion of flying. Since I am typically on an airplane once a month or more, you would think this is an issue that would have subsided by now, but alas.

p>My children could not be more different. Take this scene from the bathroom the other night: my 2-year old son was in the tub talking about what he was going to play when he finished his bath, and...

There was a great blog in the Harvard Business Review last May by Peter Bregman on procrastination. In it, he talks about watching surfers in Malibu:

Happy New Year! Like many of you reading this, I am ringing in the first full week of 2014 trapped in my house while the wind gusts outside, blowing the foot of snow that fell on Sunday so strongly...

In a post about a year and a half ago called “Awareness,” I talked about my experience skydiving, and in it I wrote: After the training, we went up in the plane. I tell you, I have never known fear...

I love my mini van. I know there are some out there who “rage against the mini van” and others who hold it as the symbol for a slow suburban death. And hey, to each his own. But I have to tell you:...

Happy Thanksgiving!