by Lynn Lipinski | Jan 16, 2014 | Personal
“Hear what you want to hear,” proclaims one television ad for noise-canceling headphones, showing professional athletes walking through jeering crowds but still at peace thanks to sound-proofing technology. We already focus our eyes on little screens in...
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 20, 2013 | Personal
Remember those golden years when you thought you knew everything? This year was not one of them for me. 2013 was full of surprises. Here are eight of them. The Catholic Church is evolving. I’d figured it for a lost cause, a musty, judgmental church darkened by...
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 10, 2013 | Personal, Profiles
I was born in 1969’s ‘summer of love’ and learned how to walk and throw tantrums while women across the United States read Betty Friedan and fought for equal pay for equal work, the right to practice law or sit on a jury. For little girls like me,...
by Lynn Lipinski | Aug 13, 2013 | Essays and Features, Personal, Writing
Two minutes of running as a beginner and I was gasping for air. How did people run for a mile? I couldn’t make it around the block. I asked my fast-footed sister for advice. “You’ve got to slow your breathing down,” she said. I had no idea how...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jul 22, 2013 | Essays and Features, Personal
In my job at ICANN, I have the privilege of traveling around the world for our thrice-yearly meetings, and year-round I get to meet and work with people from every continent. The biggest barrier is typically and unsurprisingly language — my three years of high...