A More Positive Way to Think About Productivity
Signing up to co-author a book has revealed a new twist in my dysfunctional relationship with productivity. With an MBA and a 30-year career in pharmaceutical marketing, its not surprising…
Opening My Eyes to the Damage from Code Switching
As Black History month draws to a close and we are on the cusp of Women’s History Month , the Modern-Day Church Lady reflects on what she learned about code-switching…
Great Advice from Uzo Aduba on How to Talk About Race
When the actress Uzo Aduba answered a question about how to talk about race when you don’t know what words to use, I leaned forward. Aduba, who is best known…
3 Surprising Ways a Camera Can Help You
I’ve fallen in love with photography over the last two years. It started with a course in my local Adult Ed School and continues to this day with courses at…
New Jersey DACA Rally: Standing Strong with the Dreamers
I find myself taking baby steps towards political activism. It’s one thing to write about people who are political protesters (see stories on Mahmud and Abu). It is another to…
Cross Cultural Illumination #1: It is a Cat-Dog
Dinner with two recent Ethiopian Asylees shine a light on Americans’ curious personification of pets. One of the most puzzling American habits to those new the USA is our treatment…
Lenten Challenge #5: Rebooting Your Approach to the Dark Times
This Lent, I’ve been preoccupied with dark subjects. I’ve written about people who don’t have enough to eat, about pernicious ingrown racist attitudes and about innocent Asylum Seekers thrown in…
Lenten Challenge #3: Rebooting Responsibility for Race Relations
Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates while in Curacao on vacation is a mind-blowing experience. His book, Between the World and Me, challenged me to rethink my responsibility for the troubled state of race…
The Scary Power of Dressing Alike
The modern church lady was never big on matching outfits. Despite growing up with 2 sisters close in age, we were never dressed alike. Here are a couple of pictures…
Going with the Magic
2017 Update One of my favorite Lenten posts from my 2016 series was “going with the magic.” In it I recount how viewing my streamlined collection of books was like…
