Lifestyle

Feb 133 min read

Love More, Love Bigger, Love Better--This is my Challenge to You

Growing up, I had always been told that love was to be limited to a life partner, to family, and maybe to a few pets and a best friend....

Feb 68 min read

Are Your Role Models Heroic or Horrific? A Work/Life Perspective

By Michael Kramer and Debbie Dougherty When I first started working at the University of Missouri, I had a work mentor and role model. ...

Jan 25 min read

Don't be a Jerk: Words to Live By in 2024

It all started with my cat. Yoda is one of those hairless cats and he is not very nice. Oh, he is nice to me. As I write, he is snuggled...

Oct 31, 20232 min read

Your Workplace is Scary, and not Just on Halloween Night

It is Halloween, my friends, and the ghouls are about, the children are dressed up and the treats are all out. You sit by your front...

Sep 26, 20236 min read

10 Years to Diagnosis (If You are a Woman).

Something really weird happened this summer. I am talking really weird. My husband got sick and his doctor called him to see how he was...

Sep 19, 20235 min read

Why don't women think about the Roman Empire? Because it Is Built on a History of Sexual Violence.

By Fionna Clark and Debbie Dougherty Last week, I arrived early to my undergraduate organizational communication course to find two women...

Aug 30, 20235 min read

Someone I love Told me Climate Change is a Hoax. We Must Confront our Climate Blind Spots

Sometimes, when traveling, you meet the most interesting people. Like, twenty plus years ago, I was on a plane heading to a conference...

Mar 21, 20234 min read

How Should I Talk About My Pain?

I have been in a lot of pain lately. Not the existential kind. The physical kind. It has been going on for close to five months and I am...

Dec 27, 20225 min read

The Word of the Year for 2023 is. . .

The Word of the Year for 2023 is Let's do This Thing.

Dec 20, 20222 min read

Find Your Joy? Tis the Season to Be Jolly? That is a Lot of Pressure!

Has anyone else noticed the gathering pressure to find #joy? There are books, and articles, and speeches, and blogs, all suggesting that...

Nov 22, 20223 min read

Gratitude: I See You Being Amazing

In honor of Thanksgiving, I thought this week’s blog should focus on the good things in life. In particular, the people who make my life...