In the last two years of my political life, I served with 4 other women as a county commissioner.  I was the fiscal conservative in the bunch but shared their liberal persuasion for social concerns.  About money, I saw it as a fickle friend, not to be relied upon as the answ

I’ve never been one who enjoyed meetings.  I hated staff committees when I was a teacher.  When I was in politics, my assistants complained we never had enough time to hammer out strategy.  Now that I’m in the retirement center, I avoid meetings with the passion of one threaten

A month ago, I was a panelist at a gathering of professional women, and there I mentioned I didn’t think leadership always meant being at the front of the line.  Sometimes, leadership  meant standing back and enabling others to achieve their goals — the position a mother mig