Leadership at All Levels | Noodles and Company

Leadership at All Levels | Noodles and Company

My girls love noodles. At home, we cook noodles more often than I would like to admit. Even still, when we eat out, they often beg to go to Noodles and Company. And when they ask, we often say yes, because my husband and I like it too: the food is nutritious, tastes...
Leading in Relationships

Leading in Relationships

A few Sundays ago, while visiting family out of state, our family spent the day with my husband’s cousin Katie. She came after church and stayed until after our three daughters went to bed. The picture of her in our wedding album is a pre-teen grinning at the camera;...
Perseveration

Perseveration

Perseverance and perseveration: words from the same root, similar but nuanced. I first heard the word “perseveration” in my life before kids, when I worked with people who had experienced tramautic brain injury (TBI), helping them find services and...
Leadership at All Levels | Noodles and Company

Pushing Through: Learning to Read

My daughter Natalie is learning to read. It’s not easy yet. She loves being read to: we stack up a pile of our favorites and snuggle on the couch with her two sisters or find a quiet corner of the library. There are some classics that even my almost three year...