If you’re like our family, you’re a little obsessed with the Netflix series, Stranger Things. Even our children have talked us into letting them see the show (we watch it with them, of course). As we watched the show together, I kept waiting for the kids to be as creeped out as I was. When […]
Last week’s blog generated a lot of conversation online and in-person. Thank you to everyone who weighed in and shared their thoughts. For those of you feeling uncomfortable about this topic and the many difficult aspects to this discussion, it’s time we felt uncomfortable because it means we’re actually having the conversations we need to. […]
I apologize for the error in the title of this blog that went out yesterday. It could have been misunderstood and changed the intent of this post. This is an updated version. Thank you for understanding. – Sarah
It’s Thanksgiving next week! How did that happen?! Even if I am surprised Thanksgiving is here already, it’s a good reminder of all I have to be thankful for. This week as we approach the holiday, I wanted to give a thankful shout out to the Baby Boomer women in my life who have sacrificed […]
Have you ever found a food you love, love, love? Then after a few weeks of loving it, the food becomes okay. And if you continue eating that food, the thought of eating it turns your stomach? I think this same thing happens to us in our work. We find something we are really good […]
On our way to a pre-season Packer game this past summer, our family walked by a group of people on the same trek to the stadium as we were. As we passed the group, one person used the F-bomb multiple times loudly and as the main staple of his sentence. As a mom, I wanted […]
Warning! Grammar geek alert. One of my areas of expertise is business writing. Weird, I know, but with strong writing skills and a college background in journalism classes, I now help organizations figure out business writing. Grammar impacts a lot of things – even ageism in hiring. Let’s talk about how. At a recent association […]
Don and I had a great discussion this week about, “Do you ever look back at certain school or career decisions and think, ‘I wonder where we’d be if we had done this instead of that?’” Most of us have some lingering thoughts around different options that have come our way. For some of us […]
Stubborn, independent and self-sufficient. All of these are great attributes – if you are a rogue cowboy or hero in a movie, but I’d contend they are not such great qualities to have in real-life. Now are there strengths to these characteristics? Sure. However strengths overused become weaknesses. Let’s look at one of my favorite […]
During my travels last week, my mom’s 83 year old cousin was lamenting how her son sometimes worked Saturday and Sundays for his M-F, 40-hour-work week. I nodded at her dismay and said, “I think that’s just business in today’s world. You do more and more and it requires more of us.” A piece of […]
