A Guide For The Young Associate. Much of my work with lawyers involves helping them get out of their head-down mentality to see and enact a life-path that includes but goes beyond simply being an expert in a given area of law.  Yet everything about my approach assumes that a lawyer has reached the level […]

My dad started his adult life in the1940’s hand-milking a herd of Jersey cows on a farm without electricity in Northwestern Illinois, where mice jumped out of the cereal boxes in the morning. He’d come from a hard home life, and eventually worked his way out of poverty to become a banker, a small-town patriot, […]

Looking For Love? As of today, 2,754 unsolicited emails have arrived in my inbox as a result of a course I took about a year ago on the ins-and-outs of the publishing world. The course was hosted by a publishing success who’d made her name writing to ‘women over 40 looking for love.’ I subscribed […]