The Covid plague, as I call it, caused so many of us to hibernate, to think twice or even three times before making plans outside the house. It was strange, all that aloneness…especially for folks like me who live alone with my dog Sadie, an overweight, loving Cavalier King Charles. She needed me; I needed…
I’ve just completed two amazing biographies by Walter Isaacson: one is about Da Vinci and the other, Einstein. I could hardly believe that Einstein “…was slow to talk.” His parents even consulted a doctor about it and were told “…give it time.” The family maid dubbed him the dopey one and others in the family…
I’ve been so inspired by George Ella’s poem Where I’m From that I had to try and write my own. Here’s the beginning, which will open Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, the book I’m working on and hope to get published by the end of 2022.” I come from Hatfield land where legend is…
Karen has served on the Board of Women Leading Kentucky, spent two years as Board Chair, and now participates on the Executive Council. Her employer, Baptist Hospital, has sponsored the programs of Women Leading Kentucky for more than a decade. Karen Hill has earned her stripes, moving up the ladder of responsibility…
YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS: The Kentucky Entrepreneur Network (KEN) – a program of the 501c3 Small Business Ventures — has been established to connect entrepreneurs to mentors, investors, technical service providers, education resources, professional trainers and consultants to start and grow their businesses. The first initiative of KEN is the Kentucky “Entrepreneur…
If you missed hearing Ruth Brinkley at the Women Leading Kentucky Roundtable in February, you missed a very good presentation of how she leads complex healthcare organizations. As President & CEO of KentuckyOne Health, Brinkley assured the sold-out crowd that her guidelines applied to women in any career field. First, her philosophy of leadership: “It’s…
I’ve finally completed my second book — no title yet — and my brain feels empty. Has that ever happened to you? You put 110% into a project and when it’s over, there’s a let-down. Your brain cries “no more!” But, in time, your energy returns and you’re onto the next big project. In a…
Few people set out to be a leader. Leadership often develops out of passion, deep interest or even a deep commitment to something. But some people do decide, “I want to be a leader in my field: I like it and want to excel and contribute,” and set about achieving that goal. If that’s the…
While winter is beautiful, with fields of white, white snow and black trees showing their bones, I don’t like winter. It makes me very lazy and I want to sleep, read, eat, watch movies on television. I function, I go through motions; my brain hibernates and I can barely write in winter. The only activity…
Excerpts from Time Magazine’s “Chancellor of the Free World” (December 2015) “At a moment when much of the world is once more engaged in a furious debate about the balance between safety and freedom, the [German] Chancellor [Angela Merkel] is asking a great deal of the German people, and by their example, the rest of…