When the Blossoms Bruise and the Flowers Fall

Last winter, I joined an amazing group of women who gather to share a meal along with stories and thoughts we’ve written in response to a selected prompt. The prompts change each month, and often we’ve used those provided by Red Tent Living. But this month, our host...

A Leader is Someone Who…

How would you finish this statement: A leader is someone who . . . If we go by what culture tells us, or our professors, bosses, or peers, we probably would begin to recite the stock definitions of a leader. But if we stop for a moment and take a close look at our...

We Beg to Differ. You Are Too a Leader

This post is for those of you who aren’t fully convinced you are a leader. Maybe you long to be but you don’t easily see that word “leader” on your list of how you’d describe who you are. Or perhaps you secretly do see yourself as a leader but you believe others...