A few weeks ago, I had a highly unsettling memory. I had been reading about Mr. Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons if the war in Ukraine escalated. In my memory, I am a five-year-old child in first grade at Jackson Elementary School in Oak Park Michigan. I hear the voice of the principal, Mr. Street, coming over the PA. He announces that we are about to have a test. He says, “don’t be worried, this is only a test.” …
In March we are celebrating Women’s History Month. Throughout my career, I have had the great fortune to have known and to have been taught and mentored by several outstanding women. In recognition, I take great pleasure today in celebrating the life of my friend and mentor, Ann Hartman, who passed away recently at the age of 95. I knew Ann from the time she recruited me in 1979 to join the newly founded Ann Arbor Center For The Family. At …
A question that perplexes us all is, how do we deal with a bully? While this is a challenge we have all had to deal with multiple times, today the question is monumental: how do we deal with the bully from Russia? While Putin remains a shadowy, authoritarian bully, most of us have encountered numerous disturbing bullies much closer to home: whether it’s on the playground, at school, at work or worst of all, at home. The first bully I …
If you are going to reach your goals, you need to know yourself. You can never have all the answers. You can’t do everything yourself, even if you do have full knowledge about things you are working on at the any moment. More than that, you’ve got to come to grips with the fact that you can never hope to keep everything in balance at the same time. There will be days where work dominates you personal life, and days …