The Honest CGI Dog and Fictitious Bottles of Beer
Last week reminded me rather starkly that wisdom and information are often very different things, and that one invites greater openness while the other could use some well-placed blinders … Read More
An Ordinary No?
February 17, 2020
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Sarah B
Two words keep repeating in my mind since I heard them in a podcast a number of weeks ago: Ordinary no. The podcast is The Secret Live of Black … Read More
The Wisdom, the Flex, and the Food
January 20, 2020
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Sarah B
Yesterday, Theresa and I spent a handful of hours cooking together. She prepped salad fixings and veggies to dip in hummus; I roasted off some other veggies, made the hummus, … Read More
Resolve to Re-Start
January 6, 2020
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Sarah B
Babe Ruth had a batting average of .342. This is a very good batting average, well above average in baseball. This very good batting average is essentially saying that Babe … Read More
Revealing the Invisible Ink of Our Gradual Growth: A Year End Practice
December 30, 2019
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Sarah B
When I was a teen, I got stress headaches. Not every so often but multiple a day for several years. And then one day, I realized that it had been … Read More
Gift Budgets and the Pain of Uncertainty
December 22, 2019
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Sarah B
Last week, I messaged Theresa from the aisles of a store: “How much trouble will I be in if I go a little over our gift budget?” On this, our … Read More
Unfortunately/Fortunately: A Perpetual Gratitude Practice
December 2, 2019
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Sarah B
Next Sunday will mark the 3rd anniversary of the death of a man I always called Daddy Harold. I was in my 20s when I realized not everyone called him … Read More
Hubba-hubba, Gratitude – Lookin’ Good!
November 25, 2019
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Sarah B
I knew a woman who did all the gratitude practices – the journals and songs and dinnertime rituals with the kids and more – who seemed basically miserable to me. … Read More
Certainty and the Meanest Gremlin Gabbing
October 26, 2019
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Sarah B
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