by Lauren | 13 Apr 2014 | Community, Curiosity, Self-awareness
Here’s your weekly curiosity experiment: My friend Mike Beltzner has a wonderful way of observing birthdays: He tweets out a brief ode to the birthday person that acts as an evocative thumbnail sketch and celebration, all in 140 characters or less. For example:...
by Lauren | 14 Jan 2014 | Community, Fun, Self-awareness
Today’s post revisits a piece from the vaults: I wrote it three years ago today, for my now-dormant book blog for The Boss of You. It struck me upon re-reading it that it is a perfect example of what Worship Wisely is all about: finding inspiration in...
by Lauren | 29 Dec 2013 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Community, Curiosity, Self-awareness
Here’s your weekly curiosity experiment: Musician Amanda Palmer has nearly a million followers on Twitter. She told me that she sometimes gets criticized for “over-retweeting”: that is, excessively posting tweets from other people. But she sees this...
by Lauren | 9 May 2013 | Community
I am Lauren, daughter of Barbara, daughter of Eleanor, daughter of Elsie, daughter of Eleanor, daughter of Jane, daughter of Ann. Years ago, I attended a ceremony to bless a mother-to-be. And the powerful woman who led the ceremony asked us to gather in a circle and...
by Lauren | 4 Mar 2013 | Business, Community
I wrote a short, and necessarily incomplete, piece for Quartz on Marissa Mayer’s statement that she’s not a feminist. You can find it here. I struggled to write it, because I knew I was leaving so much context out – and therefore leaving myself open to...
by Lauren | 29 Jan 2013 | Beauty Tuesdays, Community
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. –Martin Luther King, Jr. I have been feeling hopeful about my country lately. I haven’t felt that...
