Confronting Crisis with Courage

In a very unexpected way, a personal crisis led me to step across a new threshold. It was and still is one of my life's greatest transitions.

Last November, I decided to resign from my position as executive director of The Grove Center for the Arts & Media, a non-profit arts organization I founded eighteen years ago.

Like many of life's transitions, what prompted this change was not a thrilling promotion or winning the lottery, but rather a series of events that began with a crisis.

In my cas...