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...
Ageless
March 19, 2012
We’re all aware that each generation tends to live longer than the ones before, and we might have noticed also that each generation looks and acts younger at a particular age than previous generations at that same age. Yet our mindset about what it means to be 30, 40, 50, 60, and beyond tends to [...] 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...
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...
You Don’t Need Psychic Powers
February 24, 2012
In Monday’s blog post, I talked about why it’s a mistake to wait for the economy to recover before we transform our lives, work, and world. The future belongs to those who are starting those transformations now, who are shaping the world and creating their own place in it. If you can’t afford to make [...] Read more...
