Category: Blog
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Just Like Everybody Else
My seven-year-old nephew, (about to be eight), is in the second grade. As often as I can I ask him, “What was the favorite part of your day at school today?” Sometimes he tells me it was playing with his friends at recess. Sometimes it’s painting in art class. This past week, however, when I…
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The Post-pandemic Workplace
We’re at a point in time where we are just coming out of our world being turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are slowly figuring out what our future might look like economically, socially, and work-wise. Many business owners are trying to figure out what the future of the workspace…
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Cultural Diversity Awareness
May 21st is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, a day set aside by the United Nations in 2001 as an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to live together better. The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions…
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Active Listening
I consider myself a diplomatic person on almost every level. I feel as though I am able deal with most (if not all) people in a sensitive and effective way. I believe having a healthy dose of compassion along with good listening skills is the combination to understanding others. There are so many things in…
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February Is Black History Month
It’s going to take months if not years for us to truly understand how big of an impact COVID is having on our society and economy. Unfortunately, there is data that shows the pandemic is disproportionately impacting African Americans. In fact, majority-black counties have three times the rate of infections and nearly six times the…
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Looking Forward to 2021
2020 was hard for many of us. And although we are all facing the same pandemic, it has been harder for some than for others. And while, after what feels more like an eternity than just a calendar year, we finally get to transition to 2021, where we will deal with some residual issues. At…
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YOUR VOTE COUNTS
While 70 percent of Americans say they believe that high voter turnout in presidential elections is important, only 56 percent of Americans who were of the voting age voted in the 2016 presidential election according to Pew Research Center. And even though approximately 245 million Americans were of age to vote that year, only 157.6…
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Unprecedented Times
Unprecedented. Challenging. Uncertain. Never have I heard these words used more frequently than in the past few weeks. All of those words ring true in this first week of April, 2020. The Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has upended the world as we know it and things are changing day by day and week by week. It’s…
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Mind Reading
Ever wish you could read someone else’s mind? I imagine it would be really cool to be able to do that…at least at first. Sure, it would be fun to know what a friend is thinking when it comes to what they might want for a birthday gift or where to go for dinner—you would…
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Joy at Work
I have a number of friends who are currently in the process of “decluttering” their homes. This is largely because of the very trendy Marie Kondo book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. My friend Teri told me about pulling all of the clothes she owns out of her closet and chest of drawers and…