This is a story of how a penny changed my life. Until I was three, my life was pretty good. I was the only child — until my sister came along. At first, I was very upset. But then my father took me to work with him. He gave me “work to help him” and … Continue reading A Penny Changed My Life — I Became Invisible
After leaving IBM in May, I started a blog — mainly to tell my family and friends about my new life. I enthusiastically wrote my first piece “Education for Grown Ups: Learning Micro-fields with An Intellectual Guide”, showed it to my writer friends, and asked for their reactions. “Your writing sounds like corporate IBM speaking!” … Continue reading The Child in Me Helps The Grown Up Me Find My Voice
“Stop wiggling” commands my Pilates instructor par excellence, Denise Miller, “or I will put you in a straight-jacket”. It didn’t seem to matter whether I was trying to lift my leg up to make leg circles or trying to align my spine on the mat or … my body simply wiggles trying to make the … Continue reading My Body Teaches My Mind To Read Better — My Pilates Teacher Fixes A Reading Problem
Woody arrived September 27, 2014 at 6:15 in the evening after spending 10 hours coming from Boise in cargo with a layover in Houston. Ralph (my husband) had sent one of his undershirts to the breeder to travel in the crate with Woody. So Woody recognized Ralph’s smell through the crate door before we even … Continue reading Woody joins the family — 9.27.2014
Lilian Wu 