Mother’s Day Reflections

Every May, families across the United States come together to celebrate their mothers. This year I spent Mother’s Day weekend at a book event for What’s Mom Still Got to Do With It? at a local Barnes and Noble, in collaboration with another mother-focused author. I...

What’s Mom Still Got to Do with It: The Origin Story

I’m a career counselor. I help people make career transitions by assisting them on their journey for insight about their lives and careers. Where did things go right? Where did they go wrong? For 26 years, I have listened to people’s stories about their careers —...

Your Career and Bad Weather

I think it’s safe to say that Old Man Winter will be remembered by all who crossed paths with him this year as being particularly cantankerous. Case in point? First it snows (a lot.) Then it rains. Then it hails. Then, in case we missed it – it snows again, followed...

Nothing Stays the Same

As the long days of summer wind down,  kids everywhere are getting ready to go back to school, filled with a proportional mix of anticipation and dread. It means for them – amongst other things – homework again, new subjects to learn and new tests to study for.  They...