Receiving the gift!

Receiving the gift!

I love Christmas! I love Christmas carols in the air wherever I go, provided they begin after Thanksgiving. I love the cookies and candies, the hustle and bustle, the lights, and the excitement of the season. Yet for those in the middle of a life transition, the world...
Don’t let a day go wasted!

Don’t let a day go wasted!

“Finish eating everything on your plate because there are starving children who would love to have what you have.” Those were the instructions I heard regularly growing up, which was fine except for those lima beans that I would have given to any starving child. My...
Who am I, now that I’m unemployed?

Who am I, now that I’m unemployed?

“HI, I’M DALE KREIENKAMP, head of human resources for …” Very often, that’s how I would introduce myself. My introduction, and maybe yours, identified me with where I worked and what I did for a living. But how about now, when I don’t have a job? Who am I today? It’s...
Don’t look back!

Don’t look back!

As the new year begins, we often look back at where we have been and what has happened in the past year. Most of us want to forget 2020 because it was a challenging year, from COVID-19 to protests against racial injustice, to our current state as a divided country....