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Skip Cherryholmes: Month 7 Of Lead Dad Life

Welcome to Month 7 of the Lead Dad Diaries with Skip Cherryholmes. We’re following Skip for a year as he goes from well-known touring…

This is our second Thanksgiving spent at an inn in northeast Florida, and there are some lessons in it for adapting to change more broadly…

Here’s a story about a working parent’s journey from awareness to frustration to complaint (with a detour into unproductive grumbling) and…

If there’s one thing I’d like to see removed from shared work calendars. it’s OOO – the ubiquitous calendar filler that stands for Out of…

Language matters in the workplace.Too often managers and colleagues fall back on tired phrases. Those phrases perpetuate outdated beliefs…

If you’re on my calendar, you can be certain that we’re going to talk then. My kids are older so unless they’re really sick, they’re at…

Welcome to Month 6 of the Lead Dad Diaries with Skip Cherryholmes. We’re almost halfway through, and neither of us can believe it. Skip…

“Congratulations on your retirement.” Two years later this comment still sticks with me. When I wrote a final column about why I was…

Last week, I celebrated 10 years as a Lead Dad – a position I didn’t aspire to but have embraced. The messages and emails I received…

Ten years ago today, I became a Lead Dad. It wasn’t a role I anticipated taking on, but it came at a moment of urgency for my family. On…

Our children are watching us work and they’re asking questions. What do we tell them about the work we do? How honest can we be? At what…

We actually took a week and went to Myrtle Beach, S.C. and went to Ocean Lakes Camping. It’s really, really nice. This is something that…