On Monday of this week, we celebrated the completion of Cohort 9 in Quadrant 3 Leadership Coach Certification. This crew took the double-time course, completing ten full weeks in just the five of July. Graduates of Cohort 9 span the US east coast to west coast, from southern states to northern. These amazing individuals continued…
Recently I spoke to a dear friend and she shared with me that she is learning to live within her capacity. The first step to this is noticing what her capacity is for each day, and living with grace and acceptance in those boundaries. What this released for her was being able design her expectations…
Confession. I have subscribed to Writer’s Digest magazine for over 5 years. I have read MAYBE six issues. Yet, every time renewal rolls around, I quickly send my payment. When the newest issue arrived last week, I hardly looked at. Still on the kitchen table, it will eventually get moved to one of the many…
One of the happiest achievements in my life was going to the USSR as a junior in high school (1990). For almost three weeks, a group of forty StrangersBecoming Family from across the northeast US explored places and met people on the other side of the Cold Divide. The whole experience – from fundraising to…
It’s been a busy start to the summer in our family. Our youngest was home for a month, and last week returned to the northeast to work at a summer camp in Vermont. Our middle is getting ready to go visit our oldest in TX next week. And our oldest is making plans to move…
We bought a basil plant at the grocery store last week. I can’t remember what recipe A. was going to make for dinner, but the fresh basil leaves – as they always do – played a big role in the dish tasting wonderful and the house being filled with an aroma that made my stomach…
