The Joy of Shared Responsibility

Leadership can be wonderful, but it can also be isolating and heavy.

Chantal PasquarelloJanuary 15, 2025Comment

American Myth

Day to day life is more convenient in the States, but achieving overall quality of life is harder.

Chantal PasquarelloJanuary 9, 2025Comment

Year of the Tree

As we start this year, I’m moving towards a sense of grounded flexibility.

Chantal PasquarelloDecember 30, 2024Comment

Winter

There’s a certain amount of ego that goes with doing but also a very generous dose of anxiety.

Chantal PasquarelloOctober 9, 2024Comment

Wild

The hike was stunning. And, like so many things, it belied a darker history.

Chantal PasquarelloAugust 7, 2024Comment

Ace

I’m forever forgetting and then remembering (briefly) to be where my feet are. Or at least where Ace’s hooves are.

Chantal PasquarelloJuly 17, 2024Comment

Windhoek

Settler colonialism, alive and well. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Chantal PasquarelloMay 12, 2024Comment

Ohio

From Kent State to Columbia University.

Chantal PasquarelloMay 4, 2024

The fortress of solitude

My identity is in many ways formed around always being fine, always able to care for and focus on others. So, when I lose that perspective and that ability, even for a short time, it seems to throw me for a loop.

Chantal PasquarelloApril 16, 2024Comment

"I'm not sick but I'm not well..."

A run of the mill cold - that nevertheless took me out, man down, for the better part of four days, and continues to linger - knocked me back into that place of resigned perspective.

Chantal PasquarelloApril 12, 2024Comment

To blog or not to blog

For four years I’ve written consistently on this site, deliberately placing outside myself thoughts for public consumption that I previously would have kept to my journal or shared with a few close friends.

Chantal PasquarelloMarch 16, 2024Comment

Egypt: Astonishment

I wouldn’t call it restful or restorative or even much like a vacation. It was travel, and it was at once exhausting and delightful. Familiar and astonishing.

Chantal PasquarelloDecember 21, 2023Comment

Couldn't have said it better myself

I’ve never been good at absolutes. I’m always looking for nuance and discussion and, most of all, a way forward. I haven’t been able to find space for that, other than with a handful of close friends who confess they feel the same way but are similarly afraid to admit it.

Chantal PasquarelloDecember 11, 2023Comment

The Waiting Room

This destination focus, the arrival fallacy: my little goal-oriented overachieving heart falls prey to it again and again.

Chantal PasquarelloDecember 6, 2023Comment

Misogyny on the Met steps

Systems of oppression isolate us from each other - and from ourselves - by design.

Chantal PasquarelloOctober 5, 2023Comment

A life without pain

Life doesn’t exist without pain. In fact, as one of my all-time favorite movies reminds us, “life is pain…anyone who says differently is selling something.”

Chantal PasquarelloSeptember 14, 2023Comment