Certainty and the Meanest Gremlin Gabbing
The whole gremlin thing, it’s a way of bringing some levity and accessibility to a really challenging part of ourselves. I realized, as I stood before groups of students at … Read More
Shaping Your Professional Memoir: My #1 LinkedIn Tip
July 7, 2019
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Sarah B
LinkedIn. It’s the less sexy cousin of, well, all the other big-name social media sites. While all the big drama and shiny pictures are filling feeds elsewhere, posts on LinkedIn … Read More
The Stoned Writer: When Fear Inhibits Creation
January 28, 2019
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Sarah B
I have a friend with a book idea he’s been noodling on for the last few years. It’s a memoir of sorts, focused on his journey from being raised in … Read More
A Few Bears and a Few Thousand Stitches
January 7, 2019
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Sarah B
I lived in rural Floyd County, Virginia, for nine years. Living rurally means frequent deer encounters, groundhogs living under outbuildings, and not-infrequent gifts of mice and moles left by the … Read More
A Little New Year Foolishness
December 31, 2018
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Sarah B
I’m a long-time year-end planner and I’ve gone about it a pile of ways. I’ll save you the gory details except to say that I’ve found that having a lot … Read More
A Conspiracy of Excellence
November 26, 2018
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Sarah B
Last week was one of those weeks that seemed to have a theme, one wove through a couple of conversations and one Instagram video, like so: Natalia Alvarez, an expert … Read More
Dropping Shoulds and Leaning into Coulds: Navigating Change
November 12, 2018
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Sarah B
The title of this post is the title of the keynote address I’m giving this very day during the annual meeting of The Council of Community Services. I thought it … Read More
You are the Batman you’ve been waiting for
November 5, 2018
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Sarah B
“There’s no Batman coming to clean things up.” For the last couple of weeks, I had been thinking about why people so often don’t use their right to vote and … Read More
Good idea/bad idea?
October 15, 2018
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Sarah B
My first business was a personal chef service that I started after dropping out of a community college culinary program. I learned a lot about how to start and run … Read More
The Inevitably Incomplete Life
September 30, 2018
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Sarah B
Earlier this year, I wrote a little about the Tibetan meditation on death. It’s a way of focusing on the inevitable end of these lives such that we bring a … Read More