Colapinto and Re-entering the Race.
photo: RN 365 Franco Alejandro Colapinto is a 5’ 9” Argentinian. His mom is of Ukrainian descent and his dad is of Italian descent. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at the age of 13 he won his first Argentine Championship. Less than a year later he moved to Italy by […]
Levi Strauss & 7 Iterations.
In 1853, a young 24 year old immigrant named Levi Strauss, settled in San Francisco. According to Kat Olvera, Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829 and moved to the East Coast of the United States in 1847, where he began to work for his brothers’ dry-goods business. Strauss made the move to San […]
3 things you don’t know you need to know from the Solar Maximum.
In a really sad song written by Neil Young (and also recorded by Johnny Cash) you will find the lyrics “Aurora borealis / The icy sky at night / Paddles cut the water / In a long and hurried flight …” The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, is a natural light display […]
A is for Apple – and a few other things.
As a lot of you know, my birthday is on Halloween. So in my mind, fall activities, festivities, and feasts are often tied to my birthday. My cute mom, knowing that I didn’t particularly like the scariness of Halloween but knowing that I did like the attention of a birthday, did her very best to […]
Aunt Judi and being bold.
Dictionary.com defines the word BOLD this way: My Aunt Judi embodied the word bold. She was the kind of person you noticed right away. She had a personality that filled the room, a big, colorful energy that was impossible to ignore. In a world where people often hold back or second-guess themselves, she stood out because she […]
Hi, I’m Sally, and I’m a Worrier.
I’ve been working from a high-rise hotel the last couple days and enjoying the view out my very large window – I can see tops of buildings, tiny cars, neighborhoods, trees, helicopters circling, and mountains in the distance. I was speaking with my sister yesterday via FaceTime and she asked me if I worried […]
Hot Ones and 4 takeaways.
I am for sure not the first one to write about this. And, I don’t even like hot sauce. Like, at all. But my sister Coleen recently got me into this YouTube show called Hot Ones. Four episodes in and I’m hooked. For the two of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, let […]
Dina – and 5 reasons to say Yes.
Many years ago I was asked if I wanted to have a counseling intern “help me out” in my high school classroom. I remember clearly that I was reluctant, to put it mildly. Kind of bratty about it, if I’m being honest. I was picturing some young college student who wouldn’t know how to interact […]
Can we sing Stairway to Heaven?
My friend Melissa is a choral conductor and because of that, she is uniquely attuned to communicating intentions. She uses things like tempo, tone, phrasing, and volume to help her choirs understand the pieces they are performing and to convey that emotional understanding to their audiences. It is her vision that is interpreted. Communicating emotional […]
Quit fighting the facts.
My friend Lauren was talking to me recently about being stuck in her journey toward buying her first home. She wanted to buy at her pre-approved price, in a certain part of town and she wanted a home with a certain amount of square footage. And no matter how she computed those three variables, there […]
