Who Are We Without Our Titles?
Too often, we define ourselves by our jobs in this world: "I work at X," "I'm so and so's mother, ____'s wife." But when those relationships have expired, matured or evaporated, what's left?
Too often, we define ourselves by our jobs in this world: "I work at X," "I'm so and so's mother, ____'s wife." But when those relationships have expired, matured or evaporated, what's left?
Jane Atkinson | Posted 05.01.2012
If we're not careful, our essence and identity can become absorbed by all of our titles: wife, mother, friend, daughter, employee, coach.
Nancy Colier | Posted 04.13.2012
What is causing us to relate to ourself in the third person, to want to turn ourself into a product? Are we afraid that if we don't continually tell the world who we are that we will be invisible?
Glenn Llopis | Posted 01.21.2012
The Hispanic community at large must finally decide how to establish its voice in America, a voice that must educate mainstream audiences about the real opportunities we can create.
Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.06.2011
My cheeks seared red-hot, as I retreated...too embarrassed to say "my mother's maiden name is Barraza" in defense. I did not have my mother's name. Did that mean that I didn't have her culture?
Vanessa Andris | Posted 12.04.2011
There comes a time in every potentially fatal crisis when diplomacy becomes a criminal disservice and people who really care need to speak the unvarnished truth.
Red Room | Posted 01.23.2012
After surviving the first year of motherhood it has occurred to me that having a child can take one's relationship to the brink of ruin, pour baby puke on it, and leave it as dead as the iPhone your toddler just threw in the bathtub.
Glenn Llopis | Posted 10.18.2011
With over 50 million Hispanics in the U.S., it's time that our politicians figure out how to authentically include the voices of Hispanics in real ways. Failure to do so will mean missing out on relationships, loyalty, markets, customers, employees -- and the future of America.
Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
I had to shed that part of my identity that was holding me back: my attachment to a particular job title, office configuration, box on the org chart, etc. Something had to die.
Angella Nazarian | Posted 11.17.2011
My son and I are both going through a transition. We are a bit disoriented and excited, both of us embarking on our own adventure: me with my changing identity, and him his next year in college.
Wael Nawara | Posted 05.25.2011
After 9/11 and the launching of "The War on Terror," which reportedly he opposed, Mjr. Hasan may have begun to develop an identity crisis.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011
No ordinary bubble collapsed. America was already going through a crisis of identity. I can only see this as a spiritual crisis that was long in the making.
Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.20.2012