Co-opetition

Co-opetition

Cooperation, competition – which side of human nature’s divide do you stride? Do you recall this post:  https://www.pjcolando.com/girl-games/ I can’t forget it; it seems to be the pattern of my life. I wish, I wish, I wish, that co-opetition was the...
Dark Chocolate Thoughts

Dark Chocolate Thoughts

As women, we are all going through the same life, albeit in divergent times and tracks. Some lead lives of quiet desperation, to paraphrase a famous book. Some are like Martha and some are like Mary, as parabled in another. Some feel fully alive, bristling with...
Girl Games

Girl Games

“Let’s you and me hate her” was the name I gave the rapport-building game that I experienced in 1997. It’s power play when there are three girls, each seeking pecking order by defame. I was entrapped – for a short while – until I...