Career

Even though my class at Parsons was cancelled, I have accomplished exactly what I came to New York to do.

SACRAMENTO — California's jobless rate remained unchanged at 10.7 percent in July as the state saw slow employment growth, adding a little more than 25,000 jobs. However, Yuba, Sutter and Colusa counties remained among those counties with the...

We never think we have an attitude problem.  I truly believe we generally don’t willing go into a situation or circumstance wanting or with a bad attitude.  It just sneaks up on us, and WHAM, there we are mired in an attitude that will almost a...

When I became a civil servant many years ago someone asked me did I understand what that meant?  I probably looked like a deer in the headlights and muttered something like, "Well..., I work for the State (of California)".  I was immediately ...

Can I really reconcile myself to doing something I love that I’ll never be great at? Is it better to have painted and sucked or never to have painted at all?

The lack of caring or kindness is endemic -- it exists in politics, workplaces, schools, and in our homes.  If one acts out of kindness oftentimes they are accused of being "soft"?  I beg to differ, if employees are treated with kindness, tru...

When I started work with the great State of California over forty years ago, there was a structure and an accepted way of doing things.  Granted it was a bit rigid, but at least most everyone played by the same set of rules.  I began my "illu...

She wasn’t the prettiest, the thinnest, the most popular girl but she was really smart and seriously focused and as ambitious as any of the guys. These were the heady days of feminism after all. Anna was a sister.

This message, my subconscious, spoke to me so clearly I could hardly get through the words without crying. ‘Go. Get off this hamster wheel. Go get some fresh air, a new outlook on life. Go get some exercise, refresh your career, re-charge your spiri...

Those were the closing words used by Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugural speech in 1861 when the country was divided over the slavery issue.  It seems appropriate at this moment, when our country is  torn by ideologies, to talk about ...