Winter doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. It’s cold, dark and tends to seem quite bare. While it isn’t my personal favorite season, it is one I greatly respect. You see, winter is when the deepest work occurs in … Read More
Years ago, Kerri and I ran a training on interviewing. One of the activities we had the participants do was a role play, where they broke into teams with some of them acting as interviewers and others being interviewed. In … Read More
“Monday Morning Quarterbacking” (MMQB) is an activity that seems to have reached epic proportions. We do it with high profile news events, business decisions, interpersonal interactions and even natural disasters. While there are a variety of definitions, one offered by … Read More
When Kerri and I first started our business, we took a course at the local community college to help us with some basics. It was a great experience and we learned a lot, but the biggest takeaway for me was … Read More
One of the gifts that unite Kerri and I is what the good folks at Clifton Strengths call “Ideation.” We are idea machines. Potential lines of business to pursue, products that should be improved or invented, problems that need to … Read More
Most everyone has a thing they will buy, regardless of “need.” Maybe it’s journals, Legos, or perfume. For me, it’s cookbooks. As long as I can remember, I have loved everything about them; spying an interesting cover, cracking the spine, … Read More
One thing I think we can all agree on is that 2020 has been one type of crisis after another. From the pandemic, to social justice issues, to the fires raging now on the west coast, we have had to … Read More
In June, I received a magazine in the mail that I hadn’t ordered. A magazine I had a subscription to was being phased out (always a disappointment) and they sent a couple of issues of something in its place to … Read More
Recently, after an evening walk with Quinn, we approached our front yard. I noticed a couple of stray green shoots and proceeded to investigate. The discovery? Weeds. This was especially disappointing because my husband had spent much of the previous … Read More
One of my absolute favorite places to go is Home Goods. Since they get new things all the time, you never know what you are going to find there and it’s always interesting. I had just entered my neighborhood store … Read More