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What a rude awakening for me!  I really thought I was coping quite well with the stay-at-home order.  I have worked out of my home office for almost 20 years.  My husband and I go out for an occasional dinner or show or movie, but those aren’t frequent things that we do.  Much of my work was switched to

What a crazy time this is!  Many of us are under stay-at-home orders due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.  We are having to do things differently, with no specific endpoint in view.  Will the order go through the end of April?  Will it extend into May?  We just don’t know.  Many are just hoping to return

My first grandchild was born just before the holidays.  With her birth, came a new role for me – that of grandmother.  I had looked forward to this new role for months – and when it actually happened, I also had to work through all of the implications of that new role.  This included everything

Typically I have about 20 things going on in my brain all at the same time. While the science says there is no such thing as multi-tasking, just fast switching back and forth – it can feel like I am trying to do those 20 things simultaneously. Most of the time I can surf with

Once, as a young girl, I was cooking with my grandmother.  She was preparing a ham for baking and towards the end of her preparation, she cut the ends off of the ham before placing it in the baking dish.  I remember asking why she cut off the ends of the ham.  She replied that

Last month, my mother sold the ranch land that my grandfather had purchased in 1941.  It was the end of an era.  I have always known ‘the ranch’ – as we all called it.  For much of my lifetime, it was a traditional ranch, with cattle and horses, and the place we went to every fall for elk hunting.  Needless to say, loads

“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave, is not training them and having them stay.”  Henry Ford Many companies have a goal of retaining their employees.  They can be expensive to replace – especially for those key performers who you really don’t want to lose – the regrettable losses.  Turnover

I just spent 3 days with my mom practicing ‘letting go’.  She is in the phase of life where she is evaluating her possessions – deciding what should be thrown out, what should be kept, and what should be given away immediately or later on.  While this wasn’t the first time that we have talked

When I was a kid, my father would come home from work and describe the training he had participated in that day.  His comments were rarely positive.  Training related to human relations was called ‘charm school’.  And all of the training, regardless of the type, he called ‘sheep dip’ – meaning that trainers came in,

As a young department line manufacturing manager, I had many reviews of the results in my department.  I remember one review in particular with my plant manager.  He acknowledged where we were doing well and asked several questions about what had not been done during that quarter.  He then proceeded to tell me that he