December 2025 – By Michelle Hedrich, Retired, Nonprofit Executive
The holiday season invites us to think about giving—beautifully wrapped boxes, meaningful gestures, and shared moments. But there’s a deeper kind of giving that often goes unrecognized: the gifts we offer that remain with us, even as we share them with others.
These are the gifts that come from within.
Your …
November 2025 – By Megan Shepherd, Chief Operating Officer, SimVentions, Inc.
One of my favorite events each year is the UMW Women’s Leadership Colloquium. Over the last six years of attending, I’ve found that this day is one of connection, resetting, and reflection. The event always seems to provide the topic and speakers that I need …
August 2025 – By Alex Dunn, PhD, Associate Professor of Management
You never know what’s gonna happen, you make your plans and you hear God laughin’ Life changes and I wouldn’t change it for the world – Thomas Rhett
In the heat of the New Jersey summer, with my best friend since grade school on one side …
May 2025 – By Beth L. Sinkler, Growth and Strategy Director, Maximus
TURN IT OFF! Like a leaking faucet my mind is in constant drip motion. Even in a state of meditation, I shift effortlessly within a micro second from concentrating on my breathing awareness, inhale (1, 2, 3) …. exhale (1, 2, 3) to – …
March 2025 – By Beth L. Sinkler, Growth and Strategy Director, Maximus
I am envisioning a bountiful harvest this season, claiming my joy in hopes of bringing it to fruition. What is it, you may ask? It’s gardening season! Though I am not typically a hand-in-the-earth, dirt-under-my-fingernails kind of gal, I am giddily excited. This season, …