Success, Deconstructed
In December 2016, I sat in a Utah conference room with 40 other parents of teenagers and young adults. We were there because we had sent our children to a wilderness therapy program, and we were about to see them for the first time in several months
All That Glitters…
It seems singularly appropriate that The Golden Ticket started with my desire for an actual golden ticket, though not to a chocolate factory. No, I wanted a ticket to Italy.
I Worked in Admissions at Stanford and My Daughter Is a Barista
My 22-year-old daughter works as a barista at Peet’s Coffee, near where she grew up. This is a normal thing to say, except that where she grew up is Palo Alto, California…