Have you ever been in the ocean and seen a wave coming? You brace. You try to ride it. It knocks you down anyway. Water up your nose. Sand in your hair. You pop up…and there’s another one right behind it, bigger this time, and that one takes part of your bathing suit with it. […]
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It is 11:47 PM and I am awake. Again. Tonight’s loop is about my son’s graduation announcements that have not been ordered, and somewhere between the second and third replay, I am no longer a woman in bed at midnight. I am a bad mother. A neglectful one. The kind of mother whose son will,
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I was just in a training on DEI&B, a framework designed to help people feel supported, equal, and safe in the workplace. I went in curious about bias: how it shows up, and how to catch it when it does. I came out floored by how many biases I have. And I’m pretty sure you
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The man leaned out of the limousine window and called up to Julia Roberts on the fire escape: “What’s your dream? Everybody comes to Hollywood…got a dream.” I was standing in front of the Capitol Records building a few weeks ago. A friend’s birthday brunch in downtown LA, the Hollywood sign visible in the distance
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I was at a training recently and someone asked a question that stopped me cold. What do you want the next 20 years of your life to look like? On the surface, 20 years sounds like a long time. But when I think about the last 20, it is only a blink. And when I
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