by Melissa Thornley | Jan 15, 2022
We’re midway through January. What a relief. All of those resolution peddlers have quieted down. None of us need any more noise in our airwaves, especially now. In Decmeber, we talked about acknowledging what is. When we take ourselves out of autopilot mode and look...
by Melissa Thornley | Sep 9, 2021
This Personal Accountability reminder comes from Melissa as a Collins Living-Learning Center senator Indiana University Bloomington, 1990-91. Serving in student government her sophomore year meant getting really into writing resolutions. So much so that she composed a...
by Melissa Thornley | Jun 11, 2021
How’s your newly unmasked life going? At the beginning of the pandemic, it took us more than a minute to figure out how to communicate beyond our masks. We learned to speak up and enunciate. We got “smizing” down. On the flip side, masks offered us a place to hide....
by Melissa Thornley | Jun 9, 2021
When people ask me how I’m doing lately, my response is: “I’m changing gears.” With life opening up at what feels like an exponential rate, some days I’m barely keeping up. It feels like the time I learned how to drive stick on the...
by Melissa Thornley | May 11, 2021
Happy Birthday to me! This month as I turn 50, I’ve been reflecting more than usual on what’s important to me. This includes permission to feel the full range of human emotions and allow them to guide us into action that supports our values and the impact...
