I'm trying to learn, this year, how to make time for recharging. It's a hard lesson for me. Even taking moments out of my day to sit in the sunshine is hard for me, but I am ...
Category Archives: Careers
Is Hope on the Horizon?
I don't watch many news shows. My husband is passionate about news and information but I tell him that I can find out anything I want to know on the Internet. But last night while I was making dinner, ...
Should a Jobseeker Blog?
Today's career management is ramped up from what was the norm only a few short years ago. Not only do current job seekers have to think about new tools but future-thinking career professionals should realize that no job is ...
When Life Gets Hard, Dig Deep
Our family had a year of "things". You might call them problems or challenges but whatever they are, it has been a year of them! The last week or two have had one "thing" after ...
Is everyone instinctively competitive?
Meet Beau and Titan, the visiting Newfoundland puppies who come to be socialized with Teddy, our German Shepherd. Beau and Titan belong to Lee, a friend of my sons, and his dad. Titan is Lee's and Beau is his dad's puppy. At 10 weeks ...
Change your perspective: look from another angle
Back to the berry patch! You may have read my 4th of July reflections while raspberry picking. Well, the berries are not going away. I have been helping to pick my father-in-law's (Bob) patch since July 3 and am barely keeping up with the ...
Reflecting on Career Mentoring – 4th of July Raspberry Picking
Yesterday, I picked raspberries at my father-in-law Bob's house. The raspberries are early this year. In other years, the raspberries were at their peak during the week of the fair in early August. But spring came early and so did the raspberries. No ordinary raspberry patch Bob ...
Did you review your resolutions yet?
My Facebook and Twitter friends greeted me with birthday wishes starting yesterday and continuing today. What a wonderful feeling to have a global community of friends to help me remember another milestone! Halfway through the year When I was thinking about the date that marks my 54 ...