Unless you have been under a business rock, you are aware that the CEO of Facebook, Sherly Sandberg, has a new best selling book, Lean In.  It is a personal story of her career success, mixed with some broad general advice.  There is one piece of advice she shared that my then executive Stanford MBA...Read More

The difficult part of finding my voice is that I feel called to lovingly communicate differences (generally more than others wish I would – and I know that).  Our current political cycle has allowed me ample opportunity to practice communicating my opinion in a respectful way to someone or some institute that I feel is...Read More

I think Linton Weeks has done an excellent job of explaining a major problem most of us are experiencing in every aspect of our daily lives in his NPR article What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.  I recommend you read the whole article…but these excerpts might give you a flavor for the article: “It...Read More

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders Video on TED.com It is hard not to be following Sherly Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, given the pending IPO. I have been researching her since reading an article in the NY Times last week. Very gracious woman. Very sound advice. And I like that I...Read More

On a routine outing in Las Vegas this week I was stopped in my tracks by a rainbow on the horizon.  I quickly took a photo of it with my cellphone, and uploaded to Facebook.  I doubted anyone could see the actual rainbow so I captioned it:  Trust me, there is a rainbow. A dear friend,...Read More

I am going to Barcelona for a week!  We are calling it a ‘revenge trip’.  We are going courtesy of all the ‘points’ we accumulated financing our failed business.  Trust me, I do hope this is a ‘trip of a lifetime.’  I will be electronically disconnected and a smile comes on my face just thinking about it.  Of...Read More