The scene is a 7th-grade girls' sleepover, circa 1985. We stay up all night giggling and playing games of interest to 13-year-old girls. One game was hypnotizing each other. One girl would lie down while another one would swing a pendant on a chain back and forth...
Our complicated relationship with money
If you ask almost anyone what is most important to them in life you will hear answers like, "my family, my community, my friends, my church, my health, making my community a better place...". But yet if you look at the way these same people spend their time, or...
The Secret Manual
I felt like everyone else had a secret manual. At least the cool kids definitely had access to the manual. I know I didn't. But I looked and listened and picked up clues as to what was in the manual. There were lots of rules regarding what to wear, what not to...
Trusting!
A couple of weeks ago, I submitted my resignation! My last day will be in June, but I wanted to do it now so that I wouldn't have to bite my tongue anymore. It's all part of living authentically. For several months now, I have felt very confident that this is the...
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