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02 Apr 2018

Dima’s email to the 5 people in her department: Hi, guys- I’m so glad spring is finally here- let’s get some flowers for the break room.             Okay with you if I bring some tomorrow? Moxie:  Sure. Toyo:  What kind?  The smelly things- no.  We have to eat...

13 Feb 2018

Among our many course offerings is one called ‘Dealing With Difficult People’.  This seems to be a popular topic, since there are books and blogs and articles that offer to help us with this prickly problem.  But maybe there is another way to approach the...

08 Jan 2018

So much chatter about New Year resolutions:  what to resolve, how to stick to them, why we do them, how to integrate them into our slug lives. The most popular resolutions have to do with Improvement.  Physical improvement, consumption improvement, relationship improvement - these all seem...

17 Dec 2017

Marble is not alone in noticing a growing distance between people who are different from one another.  She sees at the least a failure to acknowledge one another, and at worst muttering and frowning. And she knows from what she reads and hears in the...

08 Nov 2017

Noma has a new boss. Noma is worried that the new boss doesn’t like her, or that she has done something to annoy her.  She had a good relationship with her previous boss, and she’d like to feel comfortable with the new one. Each of these supervisors...

02 Oct 2017

Demetria arrived at the meeting just in time for Norton to ask her to tell the group her opinion of the proposed software. Assaulted at once by conflicting thoughts and ideas, and aware of the political implications of her answer, Demetria muttered unconvincingly in one direction,...