I’d like to share my annual ‘real’ out-of-office email message for the holidays. Hello. I won’t be checking my email regularly over the holidays. Not because I am going away on vacation.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved Corvettes. I didn’t know anybody who owned one in the small town I grew up in, but I was the kid playing with my dinky car Corvette while other girls my age didn’t have any interest in cars.

This is a message to the leaders I have coached and those who are looking for some guidance right now in how to lead through the COVID-19.

I have been quite transparent in sharing my brain injury journey, then our cancer journey when my 44-year old husband Jeff was diagnosed almost two years ago. Now, I would like to share with you how the rest of the story goes.

Last year, I posted my ‘real’ out-of office message for the holidays. I have done the same this year and would like to share with you.”I am out of the office from Dec. 24 – Jan. 4.

“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure. We are left exposed and vulnerable, but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn’t known before.” Gail Sheehy.