Note: Friends and colleagues have asked me to write about leading during these last few months at UNC. I’ve found the writing challenging, even though I think about such questions all the time.

Sympathetic Ink: The Personal, Professional, and Everything in Between
Mimi V. Chapman, MSW, Ph.D. I'm a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and currently Chair of the Faculty. In this space, I share perspectives, personal and professional. All opinions are my own.
Note: Friends and colleagues have asked me to write about leading during these last few months at UNC. I’ve found the writing challenging, even though I think about such questions all the time.
Prior to Wednesday’s desecration of the U.S. Capitol, people were posting about new year’s resolutions, a practice I find both seductive and annoying in equal
But where was the recipe? Once through the recipe box. No cookie dough. The second time I landed on the “drunken meatball” recipe, a staple at my parents’ Christmas parties, but still no cookie dough. With rising panic, I spread the box’s contents on the kitchen table. If it wasn’t there, it was gone.
On a rainy day, I sit in my home office with the windows open and a candle lit as my workday hums along. In my “real”
On October 23rd, my father would have been 100 years old. Last year for his 99th, I flew to San Antonio with a suitcase full of
The first time I had my own apartment was in graduate school in Austin. I remember the feeling of organizing the space to my, and