Karen’s Articles
What I Saw From My Hotel Room
This morning, my son Jeffrey suggested we meditate together. “Great,” I replied, “where should we sit?” “The view is nice from the hotel window, let’s just sit here.” I looked out the window in incredible disbelief. “What the heck?” I thought. And then I said, “What I...
Great Role Models Wear Full-Length Pants
When I was 16 years old, I wanted more cash. After all, what 16-year-old doesn’t? My father owned a small printing business, and he always needed more hands for collating. Before the invention of our current-day, all-the-bells-and-whistles copy machines, collating...
Will the Oncologist Give Up on Your Loved One?
In my work, I hear it a lot... “I’m 40 years old, I’m not going to reinvent myself now.” And then there’s... “I am going to retire in a few years, so let the new kids learn that stuff.” And what about… “My father died when I was six,” or “My wife had an affair...
You Are What You Eat
Remember that old saying "You Are What You Eat"? I do. I remember posters in the school cafeteria, ads in magazines, and a lot of chortled high-school jokes, most of them in good fun. "Don't be a grouch. What'd you eat for breakfast, anyway -- prickly pears?"...
Sweatshirt Creates Cold Chill
When I first saw this ad from H&M, the huge retailer, I thought, “What kind of diversity do they have on their marketing team?” What my colleague Tina and I know from our training as coaches and Tina’s certification as a Diversity Professional is that...
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
There is only one person in the world you can control. And you know who that person is!! Go look in the mirror! And while you’re there, give yourself a thumbs up. It's not easy to bring your best self to work everyday -- but you do. OK... maybe not last Friday, but...
Here’s the Rub
It was winter break, and my son Jeffrey was ten years old. I was curled up on the couch with my computer and I let him in on a little secret: I was buying his dad, Bill, a massage table for his birthday in February. It was something Bill had coveted since we...
Want to be heard? Stop Talking.
You probably don't believe that silence is one of my favorite tools. Certainly when I taught a presentation skills class to Johns Hopkins graduate students, they did not expect me to talk about silence! But I did. And at the end of the week, their final presentations...
Worksgiving
Thanksgiving has always been one of my very favorite holidays. I like the family time where we all sit around making suggestions about what we should do together. Usually nothing actually happens -- it’s so predictable that it is fun! I love the aromas and I am...
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