Garbage Happiness

Kathryn Crawford Saxer A Little Kindness

I’m going to be that crazy old lady picking up garbage off the street. Middle school these days requires five volunteer hours per year to graduate – which doesn’t sound voluntary but whatever.  My 7th-grade son decided to fulfill the requirement by picking up garbage in the neighborhood. This was bliss for me. I get to go on a dog walk with my kid. He has to come with me. I point out garbage and he has to pick it …

The Rabbit Hutch

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Transition

Making that career transition is like finding a rabbit hutch. I was recently talking with my lovely neighbor. She had a friend over, a nice person I’ve met once or twice over the years. As the three of us were talking, I happened to mention the bunny drama unfolding in my backyard: I had just rescued a very small baby bunny and was trying to introduce the wee thing to my backyard farmyard. My four giant rabbits were trying to …

The Bikini Mistake

Kathryn Crawford Saxer A Little Kindness

This is a story about a mistake. That wasn’t. But it took a while to figure that out. At business school some 15 years ago, I competed in a business case competition. My idea was a woman’s swimsuit that didn’t reveal your crotch or the particular shape of your ass.  A swimsuit you could wear on a boat, for example, with your male boss, male VP, and male coworkers. This was 15 years ago, when designs like this didn’t exist …