DALLAS MORNING NEWS
My husband, Patrick, recently took my bike out for a quick errand, and when he returned, he noted that the bike was hard to ride and wondered if my tires needed air. That simple question stopped me in my tracks. I was stunned.
MS. MAGAZINE
On Friday night, the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—an unmatched champion for gender equality—sent a new round of shockwaves across the country, especially for women.
TAKE THE LEAD
Our daughter, Maya, begins college this month, 1,500 miles from home amid a pandemic. I have been thinking about Maya and her sister, Sophia, and what they, and their generation, have to offer our troubled world.
MS. MAGAZINE
With the new school year right around the corner, it’s time to accept that the leadership parents were waiting on to execute a safe plan for the fall semester isn’t coming. Parents must fend for themselves.
VISIBLE MAGAZINE
As the nation navigates protests following the brutal murder of George Floyd, many white people are looking for ways to stand in solidarity.
THRIVE GLOBAL
It seems most everyone is grieving something, and some are grieving everything. Certainly, these losses can be catastrophic, but perhaps within this collective grief experience can be a unique opportunity for significant and lasting transformation for individuals, organizations, and society at large.
BETTER
In the throes of COVID-19, the simple question, “How are you?” has more weight, meaning and consequence than it did just a few months ago.
THRIVE GLOBAL
The grave circumstances are challenging enough without the added weight of the inflamed inner critic.
BETTER
This collective crisis ushers in hidden invitations with the potential to illuminate ways our lives could be more congruent with our values and to accelerate social change.
THE HILL
In the near-term, and on the other side of this pandemic, teacher stress won’t lift unless their wellbeing is a priority.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
We must play the long game and connect the dots truthfully between our business success and the way we care for our most vulnerable.
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
In order to move away from this bifurcated reality, several narratives must change (I’m talking to my fellow white people here, people of color have always known this).
VISIBLE MAGAZINE
But in cases like these, the “we don’t know the whole story” approach just adds insult to injury, and it’s time for us to be unified in our outrage.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
By all accounts, leadership matters, but the soul of our city is won or lost by each of us, one interaction at a time. Here are three ways we can do our part to secure the best possible future for Big D.
THRIVE GLOBAL
Freedom and discipline often are positioned as opposites, but running every day for two years has taught me that there is freedom in discipline.
LATINO REBELS
I was born in Guatemala in 1972 to white parents from Texas. From birth, most everywhere I looked, there were two or more ways to do just about everything.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
He taught me that there are no neutral interactions with children, only positive, negative or missed ones.
TEXAS TRIBUNE
In that room, I saw a rock-solid example of adult social emotional health, where people with very different points of view stayed open and made way for the well-being of the community as a whole.
WASHINGTON POST
It’s disconcerting for children to live in a country where each day’s news is more shocking than the last. It’s a struggle for them to understand natural disasters, and a bigger struggle to understand why some adults are behaving in ways that children have long understood to be unacceptable. How can parents help children make sense of the nonsensical?
HUFFPOST
Our daughters are 15 and 10 and we have one strategy that continues to go the distance. It’s a Jedi mind trick that requires consistency but no herculean effort.