by Kirsten Manley-Casimir | Jan 7, 2020 | Life lessons, Mindset, Personal growth
A university student in Austin, Texas named Amanda left her car unlocked one night. The next morning, she noticed the driver’s seat had been pushed back and reclined. It had rained a lot that night and someone had taken refuge from the rain in her car. Rather than...
by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Dec 3, 2019 | Big Ideas, Life lessons, Personal growth, Self-reflection
When I was in my mid-thirties and home with four small children, I took a course at church titled “Living, Dying, Grief,” led by Reverend Jim Taylor. I remember one homework assignment clearly, over forty years later. It was to write your own epitaph. As...
by Kirsten Manley-Casimir | Nov 2, 2019 | Big Ideas, Life lessons, Love, Relationships
The word love is a noun whereas the word “to love” is a verb. We often talk about “being in love.” This phrase talks about being in the state of love, whereas I want to reflect today on the idea of actively engaging in the doing of love. During my childhood, our...
by Manju Sekhri | Sep 10, 2019 | Life lessons
Like most people, I have survived my share of ups and downs. Deaths of people I love, terrible days at school and work and at home, coming to terms with the cultural divide on how I was raised versus how everyone lived, and financial stress. For me, these...
by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Aug 27, 2019 | Life lessons
In his book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin writes that “escaping poverty requires nearly 20 years with nearly nothing going wrong.” He continues, “And how is one to move up from the lower group to the higher one?...
by Naomi Manley-Casimir | Aug 13, 2019 | Big Ideas, connection, Courage, High Achievers, Leadership, Life lessons, Personal growth, Working Moms
I love my work. I love my colleagues. But work is a professional environment – one where I prefer to behave in a way that I consider to be professional. It’s not a place where I typically allow myself to get teared up and speak from the heart. But it has happened, and...
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