by Lauren Rico | Jun 5, 2018 | Personal Insights
William F. Buckley, Jr. spoke at my undergrad commencement ceremony. At the time, I didn’t really know who he was or why he was important and it didn’t help that I couldn’t understand a word he was saying through the crappy PA system. Fast forward...
by Lauren Rico | May 30, 2018 | Personal Insights
I’ve made some really amazing new friends lately. I don’t know why that should surprise me, but it does. Maybe it has something to do with being an adult. I mean, as children, we’re surrounded by a constantly shifting landscape of other kids. Classrooms, sports teams,...
by Lauren Rico | May 1, 2018 | Personal Insights
There are many things that kinda suck about hitting middle age… like, I don’t have as much energy as I used to… my vision gets continually worse…and I routinely “lose” words—sometimes entire trains of thought—from one second to the next. Yeah, it can...
by Lauren Rico | Apr 16, 2018 | Personal Insights
They’re on TV and in the papers—giving statements to magazines and joining the twitter storm. Scratch that—they’re MAKING the twitter storm. It seems as if every day someone else is standing up and taking back their power and their dignity. Their lives....
by Lauren Rico | Apr 3, 2018 | Personal Insights
Five years is a magical number to a cancer survivor. So much so, that it’s actually a thing—“The five-year survival rate.” As per the American Cancer Society: Survival rates tell you what portion of people with the same type and stage of cancer are still alive a...
by Lauren Rico | Mar 4, 2018 | Personal Insights
A man I don’t know said hello to me today. We passed in a doorway—him on the way out, me on the way in. And it wasn’t just your garden variety “hi,” either. He caught my eye and actually said “Hi, good morning,” with a warm smile. It was sweet. And very unexpected....
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