Goodbye 8040 Corporate Circle. This morning was the walk through and end of the lease. I still remember signing the original lease back in 2012. The copy of the security deposit was not from a business account; it was from our personal account. I did not even have a business name yet. I had enough […]
Category: Empowerment
The Nest
My Facebook feed is full of sad parents because their children are heading back to college. We get spoiled for a few weeks when the kids are home, only to face the reality of sending them back in January. I commented on the first Facebook college return post I saw, “A lot of us can […]
Vote Yes on Issue 1
Today is Election Day. Now is the time to enshrine reproductive rights into the Ohio constitution and vote Yes on Issue 1. People seem to assume that voting Yes on Issue 1 will take away parent rights and make abortion legal until birth. Both of these are untrue. For more on the actual measure and […]
Humanity
Merriam-Webster defines humanity as 1) compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition and 2) the quality or state of being human. That word, humanity, has kept popping up in my mind recently. As I see what is going on in the world, I just keep thinking of humanity and what has become of it. Today’s […]
Independence Day
People are having mixed reactions to Independence Day this year. Some are questioning who was really freed on July 4, 1776. Some are questioning whose independence we are currently celebrating. Are we celebrating the independence of a mass shooter in Highland Park, Il who was a coward and killed and injured people celebrating Independence Day? […]
Equal Protection?
The world seems to be going through some dramatic changes recently. We have ugly political primary fights that tend to show the worst in us instead of the best in us. The war in Ukraine is a reminder that there are still insecure people in authority who are frighted by change and scared of freedom. […]
Fifty & Fabulous!
Today, April 14th is my 50th birthday, and I feel fabulous. Kathleen Inez McGunnigle was born on April 14, 1972 to Carole and Stephen McGunnigle at St. James Hospital in Hornell, NY. I am as old as Jennifer Garner, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Cameron Diaz. The Godfather – Part 1 turns 50 […]