In this age of digital communication, ideas, facts, and transactions which once took days, weeks, and possibly months now flow around the world instantaneously. Consider the day-to-day financial transactions of a typical household. Paychecks are directly deposited into bank accounts, supported either by a digital pay record or a bank verification email which indicates the […]
To All of the Young Women I Coached: It’s funny how memories are triggered. At any given moment one’s thoughts can be in one direction and then an image or some other reminder occurs and acts as a catalyst to worlds we once knew or experienced. Time reverses course for an instant. Such was the […]
Anyone with small children can attest, kids ask a lot of questions. They do so repetitively I might add. It’s their primary method of learning, especially at a young age. “Why?”, seems to be at the top of the question asking list. My children asked this question often as they were growing up. I hate […]
The question I have for you is this, how are you doing? To say we are living in interesting times would be an understatement. The current circumstances in which we find ourselves are unlike any of us, except the most elderly among us, have ever experienced. Societal foundations are being rocked to the core. […]
It’s no secret to those who know me closely; I love my hometown – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Growing up in a suburb of the Steel City, fond memories are part of the fabric of my life. Today I digress from any talk of the Pirates, Steelers, or Penguins. There will be no talk of such […]
Although the current social distancing recommendations are meant to keep us physically apart, you and I have more things in common than is evident on the surface during our collective separation. Over the course of the past month, the world in which we live has been turned on its head. Stay at home directives are […]
The use of words is fascinating at times as we make attempts to describe certain actions or phenomena in our efforts to communicate ideas. For example, there was a time where not many would have entertained the idea of using a word we refer to as googling. On the surface it sounds weird. Googling, by […]
In my last blog post, I affirmed the following as it pertains to life as we now know it due to the current set of events with the epicenter referred to as the coronavirus. “I personally believe a giant, reset button is being pressed and we would be wise to ponder our personal and […]
Unless you have been living deep in the woods with no form of communication or media, this has been quite a week for most of us. The week has been dominated with the news of the coronavirus and its domino effect on the economy, fear of the unknown, and a more than general state of […]
The ball has long dropped, the hoopla surrounding New Year’s Eve is now over, and the start of a New Year and decade has begun. The ship called 2020 has set sail. ABC News introduced its longtime newsmagazine, 20/20, in 1978. For some of us this is a lifetime ago! As the old year gave […]