With a little help from Jedi High Council member Yoda — We have two teen boys. One is astonishingly observant, devilishly articulate, and beyond extroverted. In private we call him The Chairman. The other is full-stack philosophical, undeniably clairvoyant, and otherworldly thinking. In private we call him The Chosen. When they were little, The Chairman was satisfied with short, straightforward explanations…

Foolproof yourself with a simple one-liner — My son came home from school the other day and announced, “Just because someone has tattoos doesn’t mean they’re a bad person.” I agreed with him one hundred percent. We discussed the harms that assuming can bring. We discussed jumping to conclusions and mindful opinion-forming. …

Eighth-graders are Still KNOW-IT-ALLS! — “Mom, do you remember what you said about kindergarten?” My son was standing at our small kitchen island, dipping his pretzel into a bowl of apple sauce. I am still getting used to his stature now that his height officially surpassed mine. What did I say about kindergarten? I swiveled…

I’m happy for them but secretly I’m reconciling with a somewhat empty nest — Last week our public middle schools returned to a “full in-person learning model.” Some other mothers and I were texting about the good news and how excited our kids were to be getting back to a regular schedule. Then one mom texted, “I am going to miss my son. …

Technology has already decided — Remote work is not the result of worker demand. Remote work is an inadvertent outcome of high-speed internet. We can’t undo that. Technology is not going anywhere Remote work means working from where you have decent internet connectivity that is not a company location. That’s it. A change in venue. If you have the type…

But it was the wrong decision In 2019 I involuntarily but gladly left my job of twenty years in Information Technology with a Fortune 10 company. I spent a glorious pre-COVID year with my family and had no intentions of returning to the same type of work I was doing…

A practical action plan for attaining equilibrium in your workspace — I telecommuted for the greater part of ten years. During that time, my kids were little, work was not backfilling people, and my tiny home office was the dumping ground for anything that I didn’t have time to think about — outgrown clothes, unsorted mail, old laptops, school supplies, broken…

While Families Down in “Who-Will” Wonder Who Will Get Laid Off Corporate America’s heart is two sizes too small, Don’t expect it to grow three sizes at all. Thanksgiving signals fourth-quarter’s near close, When the layoff letters come, you don’t want one of those! But “Layoff Strategic Planning” hasn’t touched…

How these subtleties tamed the tyranny — I spent two decades in a Fortune 15 company. Nineteen of those years were rewarding, highly educational, mighty challenging, and overall satisfying. But one year was hell. My misstep When three work friends encouraged me to apply for an internal job on their release management team, they said that the organization was…