“Unsure what to desire, she simply wants.”  Richard Russo, Straight Man Richard Russo gets so many things right in his books, Mohawk, Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls.  Unsure what to desire, she…we…simply want.  Do you see the difference?  Wants come and go.  This morning I may want an orange, but in the afternoon I want […]

Last week my computer was giving me hell! Pages that I wasn’t looking for showed up; those that I wanted made a brief appearance and then went the way of UFO’s as far as I can tell. The program wasn’t cooperating and I had no idea what to do next except shut it down. Of […]

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”     ― Maya Angelou What’s the first thing you read in the Sunday paper?  If it’s […]

Have you ever had a big meeting scheduled and you’ve already got your presentation ready, all the support documents you need…and you FORGET the meeting?  Gross!  It’s happened to me more times than I’d like to count:  meetings with a sponsor or, perhaps even worse, a potential sponsor/client?  I go deep into how sorry I am – […]

You’ve probably heard that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In, the popular advice book for women, doesn’t like the word bossy.  In fact, she’s so irate that she’s trying to start a movement to ban the use of the word.  According to Sandberg and a few other women—Condoleezza Rice and Beyonce among them– the […]

I’ve been thinking about words.  The word “bossy,” for example, is one I hear frequently.  Friends and colleagues use it — humorously, they say — to describe my leadership style.  I usually go along with the humor of it; after all, at my age,  I’m comfortable  with the way I am and the way I lead.  That […]