Guest Post

This past weekend I was blessed to pay tribute to one of the MEA community’s finest humans, someone who I considered to be one of my best friends!

Back in March 2015, I had been living in Todos Santos for a couple of months having moved from Puebla, Mexico. I was invited to an equinox ceremony by some Shaman friends, on a mountain next to the beach.

I poked my head out the door and saw a massive hog charging toward me, snorting with fierce energy, chased by the butcher. I was nine years old, newly moved to Germany from Arizona, and living with my family in a "Gasthaus" -- the 1960's version of an Airbnb.

I’m a professor of experience-based learning and career education at a large public university. AKA professional development. Most of my students have been shepherded through the K-12 experience.

Women. Women have become more special in my life as I have become more comfortable in my own skin. And it's because of wise women I have been able to become who I am today. This blog post is a tribute to all those who offer wisdom and guidance.

I’ve been thinking a lot about our kitchen table lately. Well-worn and inexpensive, it’s one of the centerpieces of furniture in our house, partly because it’s in the kitchen eating area, but more because it is where so much of our life has happened.

I am 76 years old and am learning to speak French! It is something I could have easily put off one more time. But a session at the Modern Elder Academy convinced me you can learn new things at any age. Here is my story.

As a journalist, I am fascinated by questions--so much so that I have taken to calling myself a "questionologist."

A year of nomading and grieving. A year of honoring and not fixing. A year of active and empathic listening. A year of loving, not just others, but myself. A year of powerful badassery. A year exploring and navigating being Just to The Left of Death three times.

This essay is about a book. From Start-up to Grown-up was birthed at an MEA workshop in Jan 2020 and nourished into existence at a Sabbatical Session in February 2021. It’s about the transformations an entrepreneur must undergo as she grows from the founder of a tiny business to being the leader of a thriving company.