When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Bake Cookies

In just the past two weeks, your world has changed. And that’s true no matter where in the world you are. If you don’t know someone who’s been exposed or laid low by coronavirus, the experts say you likely will soon. So, what to do in such touch times? I harken back to the last […]

How to Hire a Doctor

I’m not a hospital administrator or the owner of a clinic, yet over my lifetime I’ve had to hire at least three dozen doctors. They’ve been medical advisors, surgical ‘fixers’, and those who have risen to the job of ushering my family through life’s transitions: beginning, middle, and end. For most of my life, I’ve […]

Privacy, Data, Trust, and Love

The near-complete annihilation of privacy can be a terrible thing. But when it happens between two people, the result is an extraordinary reward called ‘falling in love.’ So why, then, are we seeing such an uproar about something that – under the right circumstances – we are so willing to surrender? Perhaps the current conversation […]

The Internet of Things (and a little #SDRR)

If you’ve been following my adventures, I teed up this current blog series by telling you it was originally going to be one interview on DisrupTV that turned into something else. So, while I’ve promised to cover the material, it seems that doing it ad seriatum is just not going to work. As they say on […]

Investment Notes from Mom

Disclosure: I am not a qualified, or even semi-qualified, investment advisor. You can find them many other places than here. But I am a qualified mom. And note-taker. So these are just notes from my history of doing things with money that I’m passing on to my own kids. If your mom disagrees with me, […]

The Choice of Leadership

I answer a lot of questions on Quora. I just like the ‘economy’ of it. One person asks, many people answer, a learning community takes shape. And in the course of answering a question, sometimes the most important learning is what the answerer learns through the act of answering. This is a recent question someone […]

On Being a Republican Parent

Bear with me a moment here. I’d better leave a note for my (grownup) kids here, even though I’m pretty sure they don’t read this blog. Mom is still as left liberal as she always was and she still wishes we still had that last family still living in the White House. But sometimes, you […]