Right now, I am coordinating chaos, I’m working to build a new consulting business, preparing to teach two courses in Spring 2026, cleaning out a house to sell, and reinserting myself into Sage Studios—the business my husband and I have nurtured for 20 years. And then there’s QuickBooks. After a decade of only running profit-and-loss reports, I’m back in the trenches, relearning the system. Our beloved bookkeeper retired at 82 (rightfully so!), and she was the kind of person

Revisiting General System Theory As I prepare for my upcoming course in Systems Theory and Systems Engineering, I’ve been rereading General System Theory  by Ludwig von Bertalanffy — a book that laid much of the groundwork for modern systems thinking. Bertalanffy’s writing can be dense and opinionated at times, but his ideas are undeniably thought-provoking. Concepts like teleology , open systems , and closed systems  still hold up when you start applying them to how people,

Over the past week, I’ve been juggling two big projects:  ✔ Preparing a family home for sale—estate sales, hiring help, repairs, contracts  ✔ Laying the foundation for my consulting business through market research Here’s what I learned and why it matters: ✅ Industry 5.0 & Supply Chain –  Daniel Stanton  and I discussed how additive manufacturing (like  VRC Metal Systems, LLC ) and advanced tech are reshaping operations.  ✅ Finding My Why –  Jennifer Landis  reminded me that