I quit my in December of 2018. Well, technically I retired, but it is still quitting. After 40 years of learning and growing within the context of my job, I am choosing to do that on my own now. On my own schedule, and choosing which assignments I want to do, and when I will […]
Being Black. Where do I begin? When your parents got together and later found out they were pregnant the first thing they knew about you is your ethnicity. They knew, based on their racial background, that you were going to be black, white, brown, olive or whatever the hell else skin color combination is out […]
My first memories of Black History Month began the summer before I entered middle school. My parents sent me to a summer camp called “The Institute.” That summer I learned about the usual Black History icons including W.E.B DuBois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. I read a dozen books […]
I have few regrets regarding my career. No job I shouldn’t have taken, or no move I should not have made. There may have been a missed opportunity in not accepting change, but I can never know that. There are things I would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight. One of those is […]
. I’m a white Christian male, always have been and always will be. As such, I’ve never been a minority by any measure – that is until I turned 40. Then like everyone else who turns forty I became a member of an EEOC classification and protected class as defined by the 1964 Civil Rights […]
. Stop Discriminating! Now that it’s February and all the new year’s articles are out about updates to policy manuals, I am here to remind you that policies are pretty much worthless. They are worse than the mission statements on transparency and integrity that are projected on the lobby wall while people continue to hide […]