Dream Boards
Every year Lyn Diana has a "dream board" party on the third Sunday of December. This year, people were talking about what they do with the dream boards from pas...
Category: Biography
Learning to Walk
I realized that even for a sedentary geek with a chronic illness, I was in terrible shape, so I started walking in April. Every day at first, though I've slacke...
2015 Year in Review, a.k.a. Get a Life, Woman!
I’m writing this in place of the Christmas letter that I didn’t send because I was too busy working. I landed an urgent job in mid December and dove...
This isn’t about Millennials vs. Baby Boomers. It’s about youth vs. maturity.
Expecting to just waltz in and take over wherever you go isn't about whether you were born in 1948, 1968, or 1988. It’s a function of youth.
The Ambivalence of Alumni Interviews
This is the third year I've conducted interviews of applicants to Brown University. (It's a service they ask of alumni/ae.) On the up side, I get to meet some r...