Author: Elizabeth Gibbs
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Choices
Choices, choices, choices. Every day another choice! All of us are constantly faced with choices ranging from big decisions such as what job to apply for or smaller ones like what to eat for breakfast. It makes sense that when faced with major life choices, we are more likely to take time and weigh all…
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Building Bridges
A bridge is a structure built to provide passage over an obstacle, usually something difficult to cross, such as a body of water, a road, a railway, or a valley. A bridge is also a fascinating metaphor for our lives. As we move through life, we build bridges to cross over obstacles in our relationships; to move…
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I Second That Emotion
Emotions are tools of the mind. They are neither positive nor negative. They just are. It’s how we acknowledge, manage, and express them that makes them helpful or unhelpful. I learned this the hard way over years of being told that I was too emotional. This typically came from men (bosses and husbands), and more…
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Enough
In 1980, I was thirty-seven, divorced, a single parent with a full-time job in broadcasting and twenty-one credits toward a master’s degree in communications. Picture that with the caption: “Middle-class, Black woman/feminist/humanist, tries to do it all and prove herself competent, capable, authentic, and enough to be a credit to the race. That is a…