Career & Life Planning

New Careers for Old Coots

by Deborah on June 21, 2011

This is a fun one for me to write about since I did some personal work on it, but I didn’t initially feel this way.  I joined facebook and like many of you I enjoy hearing from old friends from the past decades – a nice warm feeling. One former client tossed the title of this column […]

Thriving at Work

by Deborah on June 13, 2011

Today, I’m celebrating the life of a dear friend, who passed at the age of 62 from a relatively short bout with cancer. His wife has been a cancer survivor for 7 years, while he suffered a little less than two years, but suffer he did. He died in hospice by his choice on Friday, June 10th. Thayer […]

SELF CONFIDENCE – WHAT’S YOUR KEY?

by Deborah on February 23, 2011

A group of us was meeting the other day to report in on the recent results of our career planning group.  We meet monthly as a follow-up to a Career Planning Program offered here in Tucson AZ.  The participants are all involved in mid-life transitions.  The key concept we acknowledged needing to be present to […]

Tragedy in Tucson Part II

by Deborah on February 8, 2011

Well, here we are –one month after the tragedy and I continue to reflect and revisit my feelings when meeting someone new – or with old acquaintances.   The conversation often turns to “Did you know anyone involved directly in the shootings?”  or perhaps “how did it affect you personally?”  I wrote before about wanting to […]

Tragedy in Tucson

by Deborah on January 12, 2011

As a relatively new resident in Tucson – I’ve only been here 10 years, I feel as if the recent event went to the heart of who I am and what I believe in.  Not unlike the tragedy of 911 which took place two months before I moved out West, geography does make a difference. […]