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Women in leadership

As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…

One minute in YYZ

I ordered supper but had lots of time to kill. That is time before my plane departed….having arrived at the airport at 4:20 pm and being unable to get on the 7:15 pm flight I was relegated to stay with my original choice of flight at 10:45 pm. Yes, I picked the later flight to…

News from the Villa

I have been SO happy to get home – to be home! Travel in retirement they ask. I am really liking being home. And Philip has and does SO much work – hours and hours – to make this a lovely place to be. And it is a lovely place to be! So, yes I…