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Finally another quarantine reflection... this one is about not being perfect. As a leader, I often get put on this impossible pedestal... th...

This quarantine has me spending time thinking about the things I am good at, and the things I am not as good at... It also has be stretched ...

Rehearsing from the script.   This month marks two years that I have been hosting the Education Counts Michiana show on WNIT (PBS). Asi...

I started the fall care of my stella de oro lilies, and I saw what is maybe the Last Lily of the season and it made me think... As usual whe...

I am not sure what to say anymore. About anything, literally about everything. I get asked a lot in my varied roles from Greek Life speaker ...

Tonight I took Cruz for a haircut. While we waited, a group of gentlemen from Dungarvin were also there getting haircuts. Cruz noticed, but...

I am not perfect, far from it.   It is a daily struggle to balance expectations and capacity and while I am proud of what I ...

My youngest turned 5 last week, my oldest turns 18 in just over a month. Yeah lots going on in Casa de Centellas these days... I wanted to s...

Well South Bend is in full campaign season... lots of people running which in the end is a good thing. In the short-term though it will be...

So much talk right now: Who is running for mayor? Who do you think would be best? What do you like about so and so, and what do you think is...

We all have that person, that no matter what anyone else says, or no matter how much you hear something, until that person says something, n...

Thanksgiving. Traditions and family rituals often times just get reproduced with little thought, and slowly over time merge and change....

Just over ten years ago I set foot on the campus of IU South Bend as the new Director of Student Life. That job made me a Hoosier, made me ...

On September 7th, 2018, Harold Coates of Saginaw, MI passed away. He was a husband, father, mechanic, good Christian, small business owner, ...

Time for a new hashtag. This past weekend I turned forty. It was at a doctor appointment around this time last year that my doctor said I n...

It was an interesting week in news, so interesting that I had to write a blog about it. Also, no I won't end this blog saying I will blo...

I was reflecting, on how great of a mom I have, and how great D is as a mom, and how blessed I am to have such a great relationship with Tam...