Blog Posts

How are You? Who are You?

August 2, 2021

As I write this newsletter, I am just two days away from my first in person workshop in over 17 months. The in person work […]

What Needs Shoring Up in Your Life?

July 1, 2021

A few weeks ago, with ten minutes to go in a Stretching Your Learning Edges introductory workshop with school heads, my internet went down. I […]

Spotlight: Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work

June 14, 2021

In the almost 10 years I have been writing my newsletter, Voice Lessons has come into your inbox at the beginning of the month. I […]

Can’t Do ‘Same Same’

June 1, 2021

For the first time in over 15 months, I went to a hotel for a weekend away. I went to brunch with new vaccinated acquaintances […]

Embracing Growth at Our Edges

May 3, 2021

“Inward, Upward, Outward, Onward”
That’s my catch phrase to describe the essence of my new book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work. The book […]

Emerging from the Cocoon

April 1, 2021

One of my favorite writers/bloggers, Courtney Martin put out a “12 questions, 12 months in” blog recently, and two of the questions were “What have […]

Take a Field Trip

March 1, 2021

When I wrote Swimming in the Deep End I started by naming a few things I wasn’t ready to dive into the ‘deep end’ to […]

Tango, anyone?

February 1, 2021

This past month I spent a little time sprucing up my home office. A standing desk is arriving by February 8 (!) and some photos […]

On My Edge

January 4, 2021

While writing my next book I have been circling and circling like a dog who readies her bed. Do you know why dogs circle? Check […]

Better Angels of Our Nature

December 1, 2020

At this time in our lives, with a pandemic surging and a politically polarized society, we, in the USA and worldwide, need to summon the […]