Sarah Elkins Blog

And how can we avoid it? · We've all experienced drama at work, right? Why does that happen, and how can we change the culture and dynamic in our department? · In some cases, drama is stirred up because people aren't busy enough. Believe it or not, many people don't have consi ...

A Laundry List of "Wants" Leads to Arbitrary Boundaries and Limits Opportunities · My friend was telling me what she wanted in her next partner. The recent break-up wasn't too ugly, but she didn't want to make the same mistakes again. · My next guy will be taller, no facial hair, ...

I stood at the edge of the trail, my face in the sun and my eyes closed behind my sunglasses. · My phone buzzed. A new text. I reached into my pocket and was about to pull the phone out, when I stopped myself. It can wait. · I turned my face back into the sun, feeling the warmth ...

Do you feed people? Or do you nourish · them? · We were listening to a sermon following a beautifully performed Bat Mitzvah in Owings Mills, Maryland, when my sister elbowed me: · He’s talking about you and Bob! · The sermon began with the description of how, over thousands of ...

The inaugural No Longer Virtual was exactly what it was supposed to be. · "I'm excited, but pretty stressed, Ginger. I know I'm on the right track, I can feel it in every breath I take. I'm just questioning whether the timing is right. This is a big financial and personal risk I' ...

I've always been fascinated with the human brain. What's so amazing to me is how little we really know about our brain, despite decades of intensive study. And even as we learn more, there is so much that cannot be explained, like when I know my sister has a problem and call her ...

Confirmation? Another suicide in our small · town. · We’re reeling from another teenage suicide in our little town. That’s the second in as many months, and they were friends. I saw a picture of the two high school juniors together, taken just a few days before the first decided ...

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Or others will choose it for you. · Our son was struggling in high school. His grades were less than average, mostly as a result of not turning in homework. On exams he did just fine. He struggled with paying attention and focusing on each separate subject area. · I'll never unde ...

Love is easy. Like is complicated at best, impossible at worst. · We all have an aunt, uncle or cousin we can't stand to spend time near, whether it's a personality, political, or an odor issue; we love the person but choose not to spend too much time with him. Why do we love him ...

No Longer Virtual = True Engagement of Your Valuable Network · It all started with a call from Karthik Rajan. I woke up the morning after that call full of energy, motivation, and excitement. Mornings are slow for me; I love to sleep, so it's rare for me to want to get out of bed ...

What do Jews think about Jesus?He asked me as innocently as a college freshman at a small, Jesuit school could ask. It caught me a little off guard. · What do ALL Jews think of Jesus?It was puzzling to me that he would think ALL people of any ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, ...

So excited to begin implementing ideas, I arrived early to work the morning I returned from the conference. That's a big deal for me; I love to sleep and rarely choose to get up any earlier than I have to. But that morning was different. That week would be different. My JOB would ...

Our global community is at a major crossroads. Thanks to our communication network and social media platforms, we are more connected than we've ever been. And yet, we seem to be more desperate for real, solid, valuable relationships. · Suicide rates remain high, despite a multitu ...

She stood outside her restaurant, unassuming, obviously an artist, · with her cool hat and hip vest. I didn't know who she was; she introduced herself as Natalie, the owner of Chow in downtown Las Vegas. · We visited for a few minutes, she asked about Montana and about music. And ...

This post was originally published on LinkedIn in March, 2015. It's being re-posted here on beBee as a complementary post to Kevin Pashuk's thought-provoking piece, Ponderings on Tolerance. · In December of 2013 I broke my record. I gave my annual Hanukkah presentation to more th ...

Celebrating my brother's birthday in Denver, my sister and I were with him on a pub crawl with about 50 of his closest friends. To say we were having a good time would be an understatement. · A few bars into the crawl (and I DO mean crawl), my brother pulled me over to introduce ...

I was on the phone with my mother when we were in our car on our way to the gym. I would work out, and the boys would play in an awesome indoor area called "The Adventure Zone" with ball pits, slides, climbing tubes and rope ladders. I had her on speaker phone and was sharing my ...

This week Arnie McKinnis · challenged a group of writers to publish a piece on the topics of distraction and attention span. In a great thread of messages, we all agreed that it is getting more and more difficult to focus. There are hundreds -- no, thousands -- of articles about ...

It was 10 o'clock the night before my presentation. My stomach was in knots -- mostly the good kind -- as I reviewed my notes one more time. The material was perfect for me, I · knew I had great experience with · the topic, and I had spent some real time putting together the pres ...