My husband, Adam Searing, is running for Mayor of Chapel Hill. As the campaign has become increasingly acrimonious, I wanted to share a few thoughts

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.
My husband, Adam Searing, is running for Mayor of Chapel Hill. As the campaign has become increasingly acrimonious, I wanted to share a few thoughts
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it hard to
“The air itself is a vast library on whose pages are forever written all that has ever been said.”
-Charle Babbage, 9th Bridgewater Treatise 1837
Truthfully, sometimes I think that the bullet points, lists, self-assessments, and strategies amount to little more than modern-day alchemy, a way to turn the average metal of humanity into superhuman gold.
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.