Northeast Ohio: one of the regions in the U.S. most hard hit by the opioid epidemic. I spent last week in Ashtabula County and Cleveland to look beyond the statistics of the opioid epidemic and to listen and learn from the people and communities that are affected.

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I love the winter solstice, the shortest and darkest day of the year. It marks the changing of the season, the lengthening of the days, and the promise of spring just the other side of winter. 

For me, the solstice creates a space; a space between the busyness of the...

2016 has been quite a year. Both on the national and global political stage, I am concerned about the dynamics that are unfolding. The Brexit vote this summer was troubling to me, having grown up in the heart of an increasingly united Europe. I continue to be convinced...

Perhaps more so than any other trip I can recall in my life, I stepped off the plane with no sense of what to expect. Cuba, an island country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, has been isolated from much of the world for decades. What exactly does that kind of is...

For as long as I can remember, I have known there are things I am and things I am not. For example, I have always thought of myself as a musician. I play instruments, have played in ensembles and orchestras, have taught the piano, I love to sing, both in choirs and sol...

I have always turned up my nose at school uniforms.  Perhaps because I never had to wear one myself, I have always considered them, well, so uniform.

Until last week.

I was in India with Leaders' Quest, spending the day with Bonnie Singh (Kanwar Raghuvendra Singh Du...

Up went the veil to reveal her expressive eyes. Then it went down again, hiding her face from view. It was as if she disappeared, even as I could still hear her speaking. Up, open. Down, closed. Up, seen. Down, unseen.  

I was sitting in a sea of vibrant energy and...

We put our rafts in the water in the sweltering heat of mid-morning in the Arizona summer. Two rafts, twenty five participants, four river guides. It was our first time on the Colorado River. The moment was exciting, full of possibility, and unfamiliar. We carried our...

Why are you here? 

Why are you really, really here? 

This was one of the simple yet profound questions asked at the recent Sustainable Brands conference in San Diego. We collectively took a moment to ponder our individual response to the question.  

The next morning, one...

Imagine you are perched on the side of a mountain at about 8,500 ft - a massive granite slab sloped at a 45% angle with a drop of hundreds of feet below you. And above you hundreds more feet to climb before reaching a safe resting place.

Very intimidating. 

Last week I c...