March and Mother Nature are Playing Tricks on Me Laguardia, Wrestlemania and Selena on my mind as winter draws to its final end The month of March has been winding down ever the more slowly. February went by in a flash, but March has been a bit of […]
Walking the Mommy Line While on Business Travel Business travel can be fun, tiring, illuminating and exasperating. At times, business travel can be a necessary evil; other times business travel is a way to understand further the context of ones work by breaking bread and traveling the […]
Love Crime, Acts of Love, and wacky love bits: this week’s weird news It is almost April 1st –the grand day of mischievous April fool’s acts. It’s nice that April fool’s falls about six weeks after Valentines. Imagine if they fell on the same day. For many, they […]
The Street Life Rhythm around the world: One of the most amazing things about traveling the globe is seeing everyday life. Watching the coming and goings of a city and learning about its heartbeat. What makes the city tick? How much disorder is tolerated? Is there a […]
Stepping in the Goop: singing the motherhood blues It seems every four months or so, there is a media storm surrounding some outlandish pronouncement about motherhood and who has it worse. Meaning, who is more harried, hurried, and worried. I am currently standing on a metro north platform […]
Unmasking my masks on the way up the ladders of success Much research in the social sciences field has found that many successful ethnic minorities in the United States feel like impostors just waiting to be found out. It is a sad psychological phenomenon that when faced by […]
Zombie Planes and Fate: My mother loved performing and she passed that onto her two daughters. Every Sunday we did our own in-house variety show where we sang, danced and told stories. One of the songs that she would sing was Doris Day’s “Que sera, sera” (whatever will […]
A tale in stumping the doctors I am flat out tired of the pain. Tired of the countless medical visits for the past eight months. Throughout this time they have applied the ubiquitous MAP method that demonstrates how much we have yet to advance in terms of […]
When your job weighs you down: the psychology of saying no to your boss Just last week two workplace colleagues were having an intense discussion where one said to the other “I can say no to you, but I can’t say no to my boss.” I flinched a […]
Taking names: Ghosts of perceived slights in the workplace Back on March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry stated for the world to eventually hear “give me liberty or give me death.” From 1775 onwards, those strong powerful words echo and carry an immense weight to this day. It captures the […]
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