Last weekend, I watched one of my favorite movies, “Top Gun,” twice! If you haven’t watched it, there is some great classic music…including Otis Reading’s “Sitting by the Dock of…

In life, we have many expressions like, “oh well what else do you expect?” Expressions like those are limiting, make us believe that we have a problem, and that the…

In 1967 the Beatles said “Love is all you need,” and if that wasn’t enough direction, the Temptations released this song that same year reminding us that “ain’t no mountain…

In the book, Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet talks about embracing the inspector role. In the Navy, they measure readiness, and hope that nothing bad will happen; but if it does,…

Leadership is all about language, and it is the words that we speak that others follow. As CEO I’ve learned it’s not just about the language that we use in…

Recently I connected with members of our Early Learning and Training teams, and learned the stories of two staff members who took the opportunity to grow in their roles. With…

Have you ever considered that the language of segregation used by those in power is the same used across all minority groups of people? Whether its race, gender, age, or…

Over the last couple months I’ve gotten to spend some time at the West Center while staff did their antigen tests. In the course of one afternoon during testing, Magda…

I took a class many years ago at the Philadelphia Friends Meeting Friends; it was three days long, and absolutely the hardest class of my life! Despite this, it was…

Patience and flexibility were not one of my original virtues. As a teenager my grandmother was stunned by my unwillingness to move on one issue or another, and my dad…

While we are on the subject of Benjamin Franklin, I learned something which provides advice on another subject — vaccination! Benjamin fathered two children, a son Francis and daughter Sarah. Francis…

I had the opportunity to walk around Boston as my husband rested before running the Boston Marathon. I often compare Boston to Philadelphia because so many of the revolutionary-era stories…