By Zandrea Harlin Have you heard the good news? Washington State is expecting…Paid Family and Medical Leave beginning on January 1, 2020! Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave program will provide workers with paid time off to welcome a new child to their family, care for a sick loved one, or to recover from their own serious medical condition. Below,…
by Jessica Lawmaster, ED As the year ends, we at PEPS are focusing on gratitude. Melody Beattie says that “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Let’s break that quote down at talk about the past, present, and future at PEPS. Gratitude makes sense of our past Over the past 35…
by Jessica Towns The question is always: what’s next? Two years ago, I was on a walk with my newborn daughter, beelining toward a much-needed Starbucks latte, when an elderly woman approached me at the crosswalk. She looked down and smiled at the baby. “Is this your first?” she asked. Life is always pushing us forward toward whatever’s next: finish…