Our Roots
May 13, 2012
Mother’s Day is certainly a Hallmark inspired event, which I used to pooh-pooh for being all about profit-making. But becoming a grandmother has changed my perspective. Now, I am thankful for this contrived holiday because it forces me to take time out to celebrate past, present, and future generations, and most important, to remember my [...] Read more...
We Are the 51%
April 20, 2012
Today is the last day of Equal Pay Week but only the beginning, I hope, of our collective efforts toward pay equity for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. In Wednesday’s post, I discussed the Equal Pay Day event in NYC that I attended on Monday. Of course, a single post cannot sum up [...] Read more...
Equal Pay Week
April 18, 2012
As many of you know, this is Equal Pay Week, a time to refocus on the gender gap in pay between women and men. It’s hard to believe that even in 2012, U.S. women are still earning annually between 52 and 78 cents for every dollar men earn for the same jobs, with black women [...] Read more...
No Regrets
April 16, 2012
Palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware wrote an eye-opening blog post about the five most common regrets she hears from people in the last weeks of their lives. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I [...] Read more...
Starting or Reinventing a Business after 50
March 30, 2012
On Monday, I talked more about the rising rate of entrepreneurs among people over 50. Odds are, you are one of the many 45- to 70-year-olds who are thinking about starting a business, or perhaps you are already running your own company. Even those already in business frequently reassess how their business is doing, and [...] Read more...
When What Divides Us Unites Us
March 23, 2012
I almost feel like a broken record coming back to the issue of anti-woman legislation and political rhetoric over and over again, but new attacks on women crop up every day. It’s truly our political system that is broken. I am amazed that we can even consider pointing the finger at the human rights abuses [...] Read more...
Rescuing Gaia
March 16, 2012
For years, at World Future Society meetings and elsewhere, NASA scientists and other climate experts have been urging professional futurists to heed the call to action: Our climate is changing at an unnatural, accelerated pace that if unchecked will have disastrous consequences. They woke us up to how bad things already were and how bad [...] Read more...
Communities of the Future
March 13, 2012
In Will Doig’s article “How to Solve the Boomer Retirement Crisis,” he defines this “crisis” as an unprecedented number of retirees moving away from cities, making “caring for aging boomers vastly more complicated.” The rest of the article then focuses on how cities can be made more attractive to retirees. I agree with many of [...] Read more...
The Future Is in Her Hands
March 9, 2012
On Monday, I talked about two physics concepts that apply to our lives, our work, and our world: resonance and dissipative structures. Resonance teaches us that with the right timing, those of us of like mind, on the same wavelength, will have a magnified effect on the world when we come together—a much greater effect [...] Read more...
Resonance
March 5, 2012
In 1826, as soldiers marched across a bridge that spanned the River Irwell in England, the bridge began vibrating in time with their steps, ever more violently until the bridge collapsed. From that point on, British soldiers were ordered to break step when marching across a bridge. What happened was a physics phenomenon called resonance. [...] Read more...
